{
 "case_id": "t2w3-29-003",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-29-003": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-084",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T11:05:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Spl Judge Buldana convicted HC (Lonar PS) on 10-08-2009; Bombay HC dismissed appeal on 09-10-2024.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Buldhana",
 "court": "Additional Sessions Judge / Special Judge, Buldana",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge / Special Judge, Buldana",
 "case_title": "State (Dead) thr. Smt. Laxmi v. Buldhana Police Police Head Constable",
 "case_number": "Special Anti Corruption Case No.1/2001; Criminal Appeal No.419/2009 (Bombay HC, Nagpur Bench)",
 "conviction_date": "2009-08-10",
 "conviction_year": 2009,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2000-09-01",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Head Constable",
   "unit": "Lonar Police Station, Buldhana district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Head Constable, Lonar Police Station, Buldhana district",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "2 years SI + Rs.1,000 fine",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144007931/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench (Crl Appeal No.419/2009, judgment dated 09-10-2024 recording Special Judge, Buldana conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144007931/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Per the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) judgment of 09-10-2024, Head Constable of Lonar Police Station, entrusted with a bullock-cart axle theft report (25-08-2000), demanded Rs.2,000 to avoid seeking police custody remand/arrest and accepted tainted money in an ACB trap in mid-September 2000. The Additional Sessions Judge/Special Judge, Buldana convicted him on 10-08-2009 in Spl ACB Case No.1/2001, and the High Court dismissed the appeal (continued by his widow after his death), upholding conviction and sentence.",
 "court_quote": "In the light of the above, the appeal is devoid of merits and liable to be dismissed and the same is dismissed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-29",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-29-003": "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": "t2w3-29-003=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (ACB) v. Buldhana Police Police Head Constable",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}