{
 "case_id": "t2w2-08-025",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-08-025": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-060",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:13:55Z",
 "verdict_note": "PIB/CBI release confirms Spl CBI Judge Ahmedabad sentenced RPF constable to 5yr SI + Rs.5L (21-07-2025).",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Ahmedabad",
 "court": "Special Judge for CBI Cases, Ahmedabad",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge for CBI Cases, Ahmedabad",
 "case_title": "CBI vs Railway Protection Force Constable",
 "case_number": "RC dated 17-08-2002; charge-sheet 28-07-2003",
 "conviction_date": "2025-07-21",
 "conviction_year": 2025,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2002-08-17",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Railway Protection Force, Ajmer",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Railway Protection Force, Ajmer",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "criminal conspiracy",
  "theft",
  "dishonestly receiving/retaining stolen property",
  "disappearance of evidence",
  "common intention",
  "criminal misconduct"
 ],
 "sentence": "5 years simple imprisonment + Rs.5,00,000 fine (each of 8 convicts)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 5,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2146612&reg=3&lang=2",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://news.careers360.com/exam-paper-leak-23-years-on-eight-former-railway-officials-get-five-year-imprisonment",
  "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3513150-justice-served-in-23-year-old-railway-exam-leak-case"
 ],
 "summary": "RPF Constable (Ajmer) was among eight former railway employees convicted and sentenced on 21 July 2025 by the Special Judge for CBI Cases, Ahmedabad to five years' simple imprisonment with Rs.5 lakh fine each for the August 2002 leakage of the Probationary Assistant Station Master exam question paper, collecting Rs.50,000-1,00,000 per candidate; charges included criminal conspiracy, theft, receiving stolen property, disappearance of evidence and criminal misconduct. CBI registered the case on 17 August 2002 and charge-sheeted on 28 July 2003; one private accused died during trial. Official CBI press release via PIB Ahmedabad.",
 "court_quote": "The Special Judge for CBI cases, Ahmedabad today, i.e. 21.07.2025 convicted and sentenced following 8 accused persons to five years simple Imprisonment along with a fine of Rs. 5,00,000/- each",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-08",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-08-025": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "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": "t2w2-08-025=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI vs Railway Protection Force Constable",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}