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 "case_id": "t2w2-04-023",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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  "t2w2-04-023": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-055",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:09:39Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial conviction of PEW head constable confirmed by Madras HC (Madurai Bench) on 05.09.2018.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tiruchirappalli",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Chief Judicial Magistrate/Special Judge, Tiruchirappalli",
 "case_title": "State v. Tiruchirappalli Police Head Constable",
 "case_number": "Crl.A.(MD)No.660 of 2007",
 "conviction_date": "2007-11-29",
 "conviction_year": 2007,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2000-12-10",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Prohibition Enforcement Wing, Thiruverumbur Unit, Tiruchirappalli District",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Prohibition Enforcement Wing, Thiruverumbur Unit, Tiruchirappalli District",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tiruchirappalli man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 year RI + Rs.1,000 fine (3 months RI default) under each count. Rs.1,000 tainted money recovered after accused threw it in a bush on seeing trap team; phenolphthalein-positive on hands and shirt pocket.",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/8629352/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/8629352/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The CJM/Special Judge, Tiruchirappalli on 29 November 2007 convicted Head Constable of the Prohibition Enforcement Wing, Thiruverumbur Unit, for demanding a monthly mamool of Rs.1,000 from reformed brewer a Tiruchirappalli man under threat of foisting a prohibition case (including booking him as an absconding accused in Cr.No.2243/2000) and accepting Rs.1,000 in a 10 December 2000 V&AC trap at his house, sentencing him to 1 year RI with fine on each count under PC Act ss.7 and 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2). The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench, Justice G. Jayachandran) on 5 September 2018 dismissed his appeal (Crl.A(MD)No.660/2007), holding demand, acceptance and recovery proved beyond doubt, confirmed the conviction and sentence, and ordered him committed to prison.",
 "court_quote": "In the result, this Criminal Appeal is dismissed and the conviction and sentence dated 29.11.2007 passed in Spl.Case No.2 of 2002 by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate/Special Judge, [name withheld] are confirmed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-04-023": "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": "t2w2-04-023=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2007-11-29); the previous value (2018-09-05) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC , Crime No.14 of 2000) v. Tiruchirappalli Police Head Constable",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2018-09-05",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}