{
 "case_id": "t2w3-16-002",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-16-002": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-077",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:35:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Kerala HC confirms EC & Special Judge Tvm convicted HC (CC 63/1999); s.13(2) conviction stands, reduced to 1y RI + Rs.10,000 on 22.05.2014.",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Thiruvananthapuram",
 "court": "Enquiry Commissioner & Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Enquiry Commissioner & Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram",
 "case_title": "[name withheld] of Kerala v. [name withheld]",
 "case_number": "CC 63/1999 (EC & Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram); Crl.A.No.108/2001 (Kerala HC)",
 "conviction_date": "2000",
 "conviction_year": 2000,
 "date_precision": "year",
 "incident_date": "1998-12-09",
 "incident_year": 1998,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable 4782 (Station Writer)",
   "unit": "Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable 4782 (Station Writer), Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Police",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.7 (charged; conviction set aside on appeal)"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial court: 3 years imprisonment each under ss.7 and 13(2); on appeal (22-05-2014, Justice A. Hariprasad) s.7 conviction set aside, s.13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) conviction confirmed, sentence reduced to 1 year RI + Rs 10,000 fine",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/10284191/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Kerala High Court (appeal record of Enquiry Commissioner & Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/10284191/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram, in CC 63/1999, convicted Head Constable, Station Writer of Fort Police Station, for demanding Rs 1,500 from PW2 on 09-12-1998 to release his bicycle, wrist watch, fountain pen and wallet detained at the station (PW2 had been picked up on a s.446 CrPC realisation warrant as surety), and accepting two Rs 100 decoy notes in a VACB trap laid by the DySP, VACB Thiruvananthapuram. The Kerala High Court (Crl.A.No.108/2001, decided 22-05-2014) held voluntary acceptance of bribe proved, set aside the s.7 conviction, confirmed the conviction under s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2) PC Act, and reduced the sentence to one year's RI with Rs 10,000 fine.",
 "court_quote": "3 years of imprisonment, each under Sections 7 and 13(2) of the Act, was imposed on the appellant.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-16",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-16-002": "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": "t2w3-16-002=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "Crl.A.No.108/2001 against judgment in CC 63/1999 of Enquiry Commissioner & Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}