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 "case_id": "t2w2-07-004",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-058",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:16:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Vigilance-court conviction of Head Constable confirmed by HC and SC; appeal dismissed.",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Thiruvananthapuram",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram",
 "case_title": "A. Sasidharan vs [name withheld] of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No.952 of 2008; HC Crl.A.No.446 of 2005; trial C.C.No.21 of 2002 (Enquiry Commissioner & Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram)",
 "conviction_date": "2015-08-13",
 "conviction_year": 2015,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1999-03-10",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Venjaramoodu Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "A. Sasidharan",
   "display": "A. Sasidharan (Head Constable)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "A. Sasidharan"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Thiruvananthapuram resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 year RI + Rs 3,000 fine (s.7); 1 year RI + Rs 5,000 fine (s.13), concurrent",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1.0,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121625441/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121625441/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram convicted Venjaramoodu head constable A. Sasidharan in CC 21/2002 on 21-02-2005 for demanding Rs 500 from a Thiruvananthapuram resident on 08-03-1999 to delete his name from the accused array in Crime 17/99 and accepting Rs 300 in tainted currency in a VACB trap on 10-03-1999, sentencing him to one year RI on each PC Act count with Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000 fines. The Kerala High Court (Crl.A.446/2005, 05-11-2007) confirmed the conviction, and the Supreme Court (Crl.A.952/2008, CJI H.L. Dattu with Justices Arun Mishra and Amitava Roy, 13-08-2015) dismissed the appeal holding the High Court order suffered from no infirmity, directing the police authorities to take him into custody to serve the remaining sentence.",
 "court_quote": "We are of the considered opinion that the judgment and order passed by the High Court does not suffer from any infirmity whatsoever and does not require our interference. Accordingly, the appeal stands dismissed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-07",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-07-004": "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": "t2w2-07-004=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (VACB) vs A. Sasidharan — CC No.21/2002 (Rs 300 bribe to drop name from Crime 17/99 accused array)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}