{
 "case_id": "t2w2-05-015",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-05-015": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-056",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:36:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "HC on 14-03-2014 set aside s.7 but confirmed s.13(1)(d) conviction and 2-year sentence; constable to surrender.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Belagavi",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_level": "lokayukta_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge (IV Additional Sessions Judge), Belgaum",
 "case_title": "State vs Belagavi Police Police Constable, B.No.507",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No.2889/2011 (against Special Case (PC Act) No.73/2008)",
 "conviction_date": "2011-11-26",
 "conviction_year": 2011,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2007-05-28",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable, B.No.507",
   "unit": "Hukkeri Police Station (later Ghataprabha Police Station, Gokak taluk), Belagavi",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, B.No.507, Hukkeri Police Station (later Ghataprabha Police Station, Gokak taluk), Belagavi",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Belagavi resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 year RI + Rs 2,000 fine (in default 3 months) under Sec.7; 2 years RI + Rs 3,000 fine (in default 3 months) under Sec.13(1)(d) r/w 13(2)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144071803/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144071803/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Special Judge (IV Additional Sessions Judge), Belgaum in Spl. Case (PC Act) No.73/2008 on 26 November 2011 convicted PC (B.No.507) of Hukkeri police station for demanding Rs 500 from complainant [name withheld] — threatening over phone and during a 24 May 2007 village visit to kick him and put him in the lockup unless paid — after mediating a Belagavi resident's land dispute with Maruti Babu Vaddar (for which Rs 2,000 had earlier been taken for the PSI). He was sentenced to 1 year RI (Sec.7) and 2 years RI (Sec.13) with fines. On 14 March 2014 the Karnataka High Court (Dharwad, Crl.A.No.2889/2011) set aside the Sec.7 conviction but confirmed the Sec.13(1)(d) conviction and sentence, directing surrender.",
 "court_quote": "The conviction and sentence passed by the Trial Court for the offence under Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act is hereby confirmed, accused has to surrender before the Trial Court to serve the sentence.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-05",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-05-015": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w2-05-015:summary_Rs2000_wording"
  ]
 },
 "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": "t2w2-05-015=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2011-11-26); the previous value (2014-03-14) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State by Lokayukta Police vs Belagavi Police Police Constable, B.No.507",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2014-03-14",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}