{
 "case_id": "t2w2-05-021",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-05-021": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-057",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:14:10+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "Trial judgment directly verified: PSI convicted u/s 7(a); 3yr SI + Rs 25,000 fine.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "court": "XXIII Additional City Civil and Sessions Court and Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru (CCH-24)",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "XXIII Additional City Civil and Sessions Court and Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru (CCH-24)",
 "case_title": "State vs Bengaluru Urban Police Police Sub-Inspector",
 "case_number": "Spl.C.C.No.221/2021",
 "conviction_date": "2022-03-16",
 "conviction_year": 2022,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2018-11-07",
 "incident_year": 2018,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "BMTF Police Station, Bengaluru",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, BMTF Police Station, Bengaluru",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru Urban man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7(a)"
 ],
 "sentence": "3 years SI + Rs 25,000 fine (in default 3 months SI); Rs 50,000 trap cash (MO.9) confiscated to [name withheld] (co-accused clerk Chetan K.N.: 3 years SI + Rs 5,000 fine under Sec.12)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149848162/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The XXIII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge and Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru (CCH-24, Lakshminarayana Bhat K.) in Spl.C.C.No.221/2021 on 16 March 2022 convicted PSI of BMTF police station under Sec.7(a) of the amended Prevention of Corruption Act for demanding Rs 1,25,000 — negotiated to Rs 70,000 — from site owner [name withheld] (PW-3) in a BMTF-notice/compound-wall matter at Arehally, receiving Rs 20,000 through contract clerk Chetan K.N. on 2 November 2018 (audio/video recorded) and trapped by ACB police after the 7 November 2018 complaint with the Rs 50,000 balance recovered from the clerk. He was sentenced to the 3-year statutory minimum SI with a Rs 25,000 fine; the clerk was convicted of abetment (Sec.12). The court also ordered a Sec.193 IPC show-cause case against PW-3 for false evidence.",
 "court_quote": "Acting under Section 248(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, the accused No.1 is convicted of the offence punishable under Sections 7(a) of The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-05",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-05-021": "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": "t2w2-05-021=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State by Police Inspector, ACB, Bengaluru Urban vs Bengaluru Urban Police Police Sub-Inspector",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}