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 "case_id": "t2w3-29-008",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T11:15:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial court convicted SI (Ambarnath PS); Bombay HC acquitted in 1976 but SC restored conviction on 27-10-1983.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Thane",
 "court": "Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 (court name, case number and conviction date not stated in SC judgment; Ambarnath case)",
 "case_title": "State of Maharashtra v. Thane Police Sub-Inspector",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No.127/1977 (Supreme Court); Bombay HC acquittal 22/23-01-1976",
 "conviction_date": "1975",
 "conviction_year": 1975,
 "date_precision": "year",
 "incident_date": "1972-04-14",
 "incident_year": 1972,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Ambarnath Police Station, Thane district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Ambarnath Police Station, Thane district",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "IPC s.161",
  "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(a)",
  "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial court: 2 years RI + Rs.2,000 fine (6 months RI in default); Supreme Court (final): 6 months RI on each count, concurrent + Rs.2,000 fine (6 weeks RI in default)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/670738/state-of-maharashtra-appellant-hash-narsingrao-gangaram-pimple-respondent/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Supreme Court of India (Criminal Appeal No.127/1977, judgment dated 27-10-1983 recording trial-court conviction; AIR 1984 SC 63)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/670738/state-of-maharashtra-appellant-hash-narsingrao-gangaram-pimple-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Per the Supreme Court judgment of 27-10-1983, Narsingrao Pimple, then a Sub-Inspector attached to Ambarnath Police Station, held up a prohibition charge-sheet against complainant [name withheld] and demanded Rs.2,000 on 09-04-1972 and again on 13-04-1972 to shelve the case, accepting twenty Rs.100 notes in a trap near the Ambarnath octroi naka on 14-04-1972. The trial court convicted him (2 years RI + Rs.2,000 fine) and the Bombay High Court acquitted him in January 1976, but the Supreme Court (Fazal Ali, J.) held the trap proved and the defence a smokescreen, allowing the [name withheld] appeal and convicting him under s.161 IPC and ss.5(1)(a)/5(2) of the 1947 Act with 6 months concurrent RI and Rs.2,000 fine.",
 "court_quote": "The result is that the appeal is allowed and the respondent is convicted u/s 161, I.P.C. and Section 5 (1) (a) and 5 (2) of the Act and sentenced to six months R.I. under each count to run concurrently and a fine of Rs. 2,000/-.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-29",
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  "date": "2026-09-19",
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  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "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",
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   "result": "t2w3-29-008=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
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 "case_title_or_number": "State of Maharashtra v. Thane Police Sub-Inspector",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}