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 "case_id": "t2w2-07-003",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-07-003": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-058",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:14:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Vigilance-court conviction of Head Constable confirmed on appeal; sentence cut to statutory minimum.",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kollam",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram",
 "case_title": "A. Soman vs [name withheld] of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Crl.A.No.104 of 2008; trial C.C.No.14/2004 (Enquiry Commissioner & Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram)",
 "conviction_date": "2016-03-14",
 "conviction_year": 2016,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2002-08-10",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable HCQ 3565 (retired)",
   "unit": "Pathanapuram Police Station, Kollam",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "A. Soman",
   "display": "A. Soman (Head Constable HCQ 3565 (retired))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "A. Soman"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Kollam woman"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial: 3 years RI + Rs 5,000 fine (s.13); 2 years RI (s.7). On appeal: reduced to 1 year SI (s.13) and 6 months SI (s.7); fine maintained, default reduced to 3 months SI.",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1.0,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84463581/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84463581/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram convicted Pathanapuram head constable A. Soman in CC 14/2004 on 31-12-2007 for demanding Rs 500 and then Rs 1,000 from complainant [name withheld] on 06-08-2002 as illegal gratification to absolve her of criminal liability, accepting Rs 1,000 in a VACB trap at the police station on 10-08-2002. The court imposed three years RI with Rs 5,000 fine under s.13 and two years RI under s.7 PC Act. The Kerala High Court (Justice P. Ubaid, Crl.A.104/2008, 14-03-2016) confirmed the conviction and reduced the jail terms to the statutory minimum of one year and six months simple imprisonment.",
 "court_quote": "Subject to this modification, the conviction can be confirmed in appeal... The conviction made by the court below against the appellant under Sections 7 and 13(2) of the P.C. Act is confirmed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-07",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-07-003": "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": "t2w2-07-003=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (VACB) vs A. Soman — CC No.14/2004 (Rs 1,000 bribe to absolve complainant of criminal liability)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}