{
 "case_id": "t2w3-04-001",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-04-001": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-074",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:20:03+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "OrissaPost report confirms Spl. Vigilance Court Keonjhar (Rashmita Dalei) convicted ex-SI [name withheld] 29.09.2023; 4y RI + fine.",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Keonjhar",
 "court": "Special Vigilance Court, Keonjhar",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Vigilance Court, Keonjhar (Judge Rashmita Dalei)",
 "case_title": "Keonjhar Man (Balasore Vigilance) v. [name withheld]",
 "case_number": "Balasore Vigilance trap case of 01.12.2014 (CRLA No.1088/2023 on appeal)",
 "conviction_date": "2023-09-29",
 "conviction_year": 2023,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2014-12-01",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Retired; former IIC, Baria Police Station)",
   "unit": "Baria Police Station (retired from Nandipada Police Station, Keonjhar); native of Balipadar, Bhanjanagar, Ganjam",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (Retired; former IIC, Baria Police Station), Baria Police Station (retired from Nandipada Police Station, Keonjhar); native of Balipadar, Bhanjanagar, Ganjam",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Keonjhar man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988"
 ],
 "sentence": "4 years rigorous imprisonment and fine Rs.3,000 (in default further 2 months imprisonment)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 4,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": "Odisha Vigilance (case); reported by OrissaPost",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.orissapost.com/ex-cop-gets-4-yr-term-for-graft/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.orissahighcourt.nic.in/uploads/cases_filed/1696338483.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "The Special Vigilance Court, Keonjhar (Judge Rashmita Dalei) convicted retired Sub-Inspector, former IIC of Baria police station, for demanding and accepting bribes totalling Rs.11,000 from complainant [name withheld] to dilute a dowry-torture case against him; Swain was trapped accepting Rs.6,000 on the police station premises on 1 December 2014. The court sentenced him to 4 years rigorous imprisonment with a Rs.3,000 fine after examining 15 witnesses and the Vigilance probe report.",
 "court_quote": "A special Vigilance court sentenced a retired police official to four years of imprisonment after convicting him for accepting bribe here, Friday.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-04-001": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w3-04-001:appeal_status"
  ]
 },
 "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": "t2w3-04-001=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "Balasore Vigilance trap case of 01.12.2014 (IIC Baria PS bribery)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}