{
 "case_id": "t2w2-04-027",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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  "t2w2-04-027": {
   "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 SI confirmed (sentence reduced to 1 year) by Madras HC (Madurai Bench) on 12.03.2024.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Kanyakumari",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge and Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nagercoil",
 "case_title": "State v. Kanyakumari Police Sub-Inspector of Police (A1)",
 "case_number": "Crl.A.(MD)No.396 of 2017",
 "conviction_date": "2017-09-15",
 "conviction_year": 2017,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2014-04-26",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police (A1)",
   "unit": "Nithiravilai Police Station, Kanyakumari District",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police (A1), Nithiravilai Police Station, Kanyakumari District",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "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: 2 years SI + Rs.5,000 fine (6 months SI default) under each count. A2 SSI acquitted by trial court. On appeal: conviction confirmed, sentence reduced to 1 year SI per count, concurrent; fine confirmed.",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/41402009/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/41402009/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Special Judge-cum-CJM, Nagercoil on 15 September 2017 convicted Sub-Inspector of Nithiravilai police station (A1) for demanding Rs.20,000 to delete PW3 name from the FIR in Cr.No.131/2014 (a pathway-dispute assault case in which PW3 was absent from the scene), catching him in a 26 April 2014 V&AC trap near Virivilai bridge, and sentenced him to 2 years SI with fine on each count under PC Act ss.7 and 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d), while acquitting SSI (A2). The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench, Justice K.K. Ramakrishnan) on 12 March 2024 partly allowed his appeal (Crl.A(MD)No.396/2017), confirming the conviction but reducing the sentence to one year SI per count concurrently.",
 "court_quote": "Accordingly, this Criminal Appeal is partly allowed [...] the conviction passed against the appellant [...] in Special Case No.2 of 2015, by the learned Special Judge and Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nagercoil, vide judgment dated 15.09.2017 is hereby confirmed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-04-027": "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": "t2w2-04-027=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2017-09-15); the previous value (2024-03-12) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC Kanyakumari, Crime No.5 of 2014) v. Kanyakumari Police Sub-Inspector of Police (A1)",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2024-03-12",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}