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 "case_id": "t2w2-04-018",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
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   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-055",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:09:39Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial conviction of SSI confirmed by Madras HC (Madurai Bench) on 22.02.2019.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Sivaganga",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge for Prevention of Corruption Act Cases / Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sivagangai",
 "case_title": "State v. Sivaganga Police Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": "Crl.A.(MD)No.120 of 2013",
 "conviction_date": "2013-04-01",
 "conviction_year": 2013,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2000-03-16",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Karaikudi South Police Station, Sivagangai District",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police, Karaikudi South Police Station, Sivagangai District",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Sivaganga resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 year RI + Rs.1,000 fine (3 months SI default) under s.7; 2 years RI + Rs.2,000 fine (6 months SI default) under s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d), concurrent, with s.428 set-off. Rs.3,000 tainted notes recovered; phenolphthalein tests positive.",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47631288/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47631288/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Sivagangai Special Judge/CJM on 1 April 2013 convicted SSI of Karaikudi South police station for demanding Rs.5,000 (bargained to Rs.3,000 now plus Rs.2,000 later) from a bail-condition signatory to dilute the charge and close a property dispute in Crime No.06, catching him in a 16 March 2000 V&AC trap with Rs.3,000 tainted notes and positive phenolphthalein tests, sentencing him to 1 year RI under PC Act s.7 and 2 years RI under s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d) with fines. The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench, Justice M. Dhandapani) on 22 February 2019 dismissed his appeal (Crl.A(MD)No.120 of 2013), confirmed the conviction and sentence, and ordered him committed to serve the remainder.",
 "court_quote": "In the result, this Court finds no merit in the appeal and hence, Criminal Appeal is dismissed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-04-018": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "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": "t2w2-04-018=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2013-04-01); the previous value (2019-02-22) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC Sivagangai, Crime No.2/2000) v. Sivaganga Police Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2019-02-22",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}