{
 "case_id": "t2w2-05-007",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-05-007": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-056",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:15:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "HC Bengaluru dismissed appeal on 02-05-2025, confirming ACB trial conviction of head constable.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "XXIII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge and Special Judge (PCA), Bengaluru",
 "case_title": "State vs Bengaluru Urban Police Head Constable No.7878",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No.1562/2021 (against Spl.C.C.No.383/2018)",
 "conviction_date": "2021-09-29",
 "conviction_year": 2021,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2017-07-15",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable No.7878",
   "unit": "Bagalagunte Police Station, Bengaluru",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable No.7878, Bagalagunte Police Station, Bengaluru",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru Urban resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.8",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "3 years RI + Rs 50,000 fine under Sec.8; 4 years RI + Rs 50,000 fine under Sec.13(1)(d) r/w 13(2)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 4,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47081662/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47081662/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106043013/"
 ],
 "summary": "The XXIII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge and Special Judge (PCA), Bengaluru in Spl.C.C.No.383/2018 on 29 September 2021 convicted Head Constable (No.7878) of Bagalagunte police station for demanding Rs 20,000 (settled at Rs 10,000, with Rs 1,000 already taken on 30 June 2017) from PW.2 — an accused in Bagalagunte PS Cr.No.238/2017 — to close/compromise that case, and trapped by ACB police on 15 July 2017 at the police station accepting the Rs 10,000 tainted amount (Cr.No.26/2017), with pink hand washes, FSL confirmation and CDR corroboration. He was sentenced to 3 years RI (Sec.8) and 4 years RI (Sec.13) with Rs 50,000 fines. On 2 May 2025 the Karnataka High Court (Crl.A.No.1562/2021) dismissed his appeal, holding demand and acceptance proved by consistent PW.2/PW.4/PW.6 evidence and corroborative CDR/FSL records.",
 "court_quote": "The Criminal Appeal is dismissed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-05",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-05-007": "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": "t2w2-05-007=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2021-09-29); the previous value (2025-05-02) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State by ACB Police, Cr.No.26/2017 vs Bengaluru Urban Police Head Constable No.7878",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2025-05-02",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}