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 "case_id": "t2w2-05-001",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify2": "accept",
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-055",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:09:39Z",
 "verdict_note": "Spl. Court Bengaluru convicted HC on 29.09.2016 (primary source is the trial judgment); appeal Crl.A.1722/2016 reported pending, no set-aside found.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_level": "lokayukta_court",
 "trial_court_name": "LXXVII Additional City Civil and Sessions Court and Special Court under Prevention of Corruption Act, Bengaluru (CCH-78)",
 "case_title": "State of Karnataka (Lokayukta City Wing) v. G. Chandrashekaraiah",
 "case_number": "Spl.C.C.No.37/2010",
 "conviction_date": "2016-09-29",
 "conviction_year": 2016,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2009-08-20",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Vijayanagara (Vijaya Nagara) Police Station, Bengaluru City",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "G. Chandrashekaraiah",
   "display": "G. Chandrashekaraiah (Head Constable)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "G. Chandrashekaraiah"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru Urban resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "6 months SI + Rs 2,000 fine (in default 1 month SI) under Sec.7; 1 year SI + Rs 4,000 fine (in default 2 months SI) under Sec.13(1)(d) r/w 13(2); substantive sentences concurrent; set-off under Sec.428 CrPC",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/56256635/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The LXXVII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge and Special Judge under the Prevention of Corruption Act, Bengaluru (CCH-78, Manjunath Nayak) on 29 September 2016 convicted Head Constable G. Chandrashekaraiah of Vijayanagara police station for demanding Rs 4,000 (scaled down to Rs 1,000) from complainant [name withheld] to execute a non-bailable warrant against [name withheld] (C.C.No.12321/2007, 19th ACMM Court), accepting Rs 100 on the morning of 20 August 2009 and trapped the same afternoon receiving the Rs 900 balance near the City Civil Court canteen, with phenolphthalein hand/pocket washes turning pink. He was sentenced to 6 months SI (Sec.7) and 1 year SI (Sec.13) with fines, concurrent. His appeal Crl.A.1722/2016 stood pending in the Lokayukta pending-appeals list as on 31-12-2025.",
 "court_quote": "In view of my findings on the above points, accused is liable to be convicted. Result of the case: Accused is convicted.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-05",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-05-001": "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",
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  {
   "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": "t2w2-05-001=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State by Inspector of Police, Karnataka Lokayuktha (City Wing), Cr.No.59/2009 vs G. Chandrashekaraiah — Spl.C.C.No.37/2010",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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