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 "case_id": "t2w2-04-015",
 "alias_case_ids": [
  "t2w3-30-006"
 ],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-04-015": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  },
  "t2w3-30-006": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-084",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T11:27:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Spl Judge Chennai convicted Gr-I PC (Koyambedu Traffic) on 17-08-2016; Madras HC dismissed appeal on 29-08-2018.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Chennai",
 "court": "Special Judge for cases under Prevention of Corruption Act, Chennai",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge for cases under Prevention of Corruption Act, Chennai",
 "case_title": "State v. Chennai Police Grade I Police Constable No.18216",
 "case_number": "C.C.No.92/2011 (Crime No.5/AC/2009); Crl.A.No.684/2016 (Madras HC)",
 "conviction_date": "2016-08-17",
 "conviction_year": 2016,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2009-03-20",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Grade I Police Constable No.18216",
   "unit": "K-10 Koyambedu Traffic Police Station, Chennai Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Grade I Police Constable No.18216, K-10 Koyambedu Traffic Police Station, Chennai Police",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "6 months RI + Rs.1,000 fine (1 month SI default) under s.7; 1 year RI + Rs.1,000 fine (1 month SI default) under s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d), concurrent, with s.428 set-off.",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120736864/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Madras High Court (Crl.A.No.684 of 2016, Justice A.D. Jagadish Chandira, recording and confirming trial conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120736864/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Chennai Special Judge for PC Act cases on 17 August 2016 convicted Grade I Constable of K-10 Koyambedu Traffic police station for demanding Rs.1,500 from a Scooty rider stopped at the MMDA signal, Arumbakkam on 20 March 2009 for want of an insurance certificate, sentencing him to 6 months RI under PC Act s.7 and one year RI under s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d) with fines. The Madras High Court (Justice A.D. Jagadish Chandira) on 29 August 2018 dismissed his appeal (Crl.A.No.684 of 2016), holding the charges proved beyond reasonable doubt, confirmed the conviction and sentence, and ordered him committed to serve the remainder.",
 "court_quote": "In the result, the Criminal Appeal is dismissed. The judgment and sentence passed by the learned Special Judge for the cases under Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 at Chennai is confirmed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-04+t2w3-30",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-04-015": "holds",
   "t2w3-30-006": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2w2-04-015=holds, t2w3-30-006=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC Chennai CC-II, Crime No.5/AC/2009) v. Chennai Police Grade I Police Constable No.18216",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}