{
 "case_id": "t2w2-04-016",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-04-016": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-054",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T18:40:00+05:30",
 "verdict_note": "Nagercoil Special Judge convicted HC S. Soosai Michael (26.04.2019); HC dismissed appeal, cut to 1y (10.01.2025).",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Kanyakumari",
 "court": "Special Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nagercoil",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nagercoil",
 "case_title": "State (V&AC Kanniyakumari, Crime No.9/2005) v. S. Soosai Michael (HC)",
 "case_number": "Special Case No.5 of 2007",
 "conviction_date": "2019-04-26",
 "conviction_year": 2019,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2005-11-16",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Thuckalay Police Station, Kanyakumari District (posted 13.06.2003–17.11.2005)",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "S. Soosai Michael",
   "display": "S. Soosai Michael (Head Constable)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "S. Soosai Michael"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Kanyakumari resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial court: 3 years RI + Rs.5,000 fine (9 months SI default) for each offence, concurrent. On appeal: conviction sustained, sentence reduced to 1 year RI per offence, concurrent.",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149370957/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149370957/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Nagercoil Special Judge-cum-CJM on 26 April 2019 convicted Head Constable S. Soosai Michael of Thuckalay police station for demanding a Rs.350 bribe on 16 November 2005 to file a passport verification report, catching him in a V&AC trap (Crime No.9/2005), and sentenced him to 3 years RI with Rs.5,000 fine on each count under PC Act ss.7 and 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) concurrently. The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench, Justice G. Ilangovan, pronounced 10 January 2025) dismissed his appeal (Crl.A(MD)No.230 of 2019), sustained the conviction, but reduced the punishment to one year RI for each offence.",
 "court_quote": "For all the reasons stated above, this criminal appeal is dismissed. But however, the punishment imposed on the appellant is reduced to one year RI for each offence.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-04-016": "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": "t2w2-04-016=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC Kanniyakumari, Crime No.9/2005) v. S. Soosai Michael (HC) — Special Case No.5 of 2007",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}