{
 "case_id": "t2w2-05-016",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-05-016": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-056",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:38:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "HC Bengaluru dismissed appeal on 10-07-2025, confirming Lokayukta trial conviction; conviction warrant to issue.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_level": "lokayukta_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge, Prevention of Corruption Act, Bangalore Urban District, Bangalore City",
 "case_title": "State vs Bengaluru Urban Police Police Constable No.4931",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No.1020/2013 (against Spl.C.C.No.40/2010)",
 "conviction_date": "2013-09-30",
 "conviction_year": 2013,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2010-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable No.4931",
   "unit": "Yeshwanthapura Police Station, Bengaluru City",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable No.4931, Yeshwanthapura Police Station, Bengaluru City",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "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": "6.5 months RI + Rs 250 fine under Sec.7; 13 months RI + Rs 500 fine under Sec.13(1)(d) r/w 13(2), with default sentence (terms not stated in appellate order)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1.08,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/181357565/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/181357565/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Special Judge (PCA), Bangalore Urban in Spl.C.C.No.40/2010 on 30 September 2013 convicted PC (No.4931) of Yeshwanthapura police station for demanding Rs 2,000 from the complainant (PW.1) to execute the arrest warrant issued in Yeshwanthapura PS Cr.No.265/2008, and trapped with phenolphthalein-smeared notes in the presence of shadow (PW.2) and pancha (PW.5) witnesses. He was sentenced to 6.5 months RI (Sec.7) and 13 months RI (Sec.13) with fines. On 10 July 2025 the Karnataka High Court (Crl.A.No.1020/2013) dismissed his appeal, finding the trial court's appreciation of oral, documentary and MO.7 cassette evidence proper, and ordered the conviction warrant to issue.",
 "court_quote": "The appeal is dismissed. Registry to send back the Trial Court records ... to issue conviction warrant, if not already issued.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-05",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-05-016": "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": "t2w2-05-016=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2013-09-30); the previous value (2025-07-10) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State by Police Inspector, Lokayuktha, Bengaluru vs Bengaluru Urban Police Police Constable No.4931",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2025-07-10",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}