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 "case_id": "t2w3-29-009",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-29-009": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-084 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:28:21Z",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment confirms Spl Court convicted Head Constable; appeal dismissed.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Nagpur",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court constituted under the Prevention of Corruption Act (place not stated in appellate text; Bhiwapur PS case, Nagpur district)",
 "case_title": "State v. Nagpur Police Police Head Constable",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 164 of 2006",
 "conviction_date": "2006-03-17",
 "conviction_year": 2006,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1997-01-03",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Head Constable",
   "unit": "Bhiwapur Police Station, Nagpur district (r/o Kanhan)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Head Constable, Bhiwapur Police Station, Nagpur district (r/o Kanhan)",
   "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": "1 year RI (ss.7 and 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2))",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81769641/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench (Criminal Appeal No.164/2006, judgment dated 07-10-2024 recording Special Court conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81769641/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Per the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) judgment of 07-10-2024, Ramesh Margamwar, then a Police Head Constable entrusted with executing a non-bailable warrant against complainant [name withheld] (Criminal Case No.70/1990, JMFC Pauni), met him on 02-01-1997 and demanded Rs.1,000 for not executing the warrant and not arresting him, accepting Rs.45 of it at Bhiwapur (the balance via a tea-stall owner, accused No.2 who died during proceedings) in an ACB trap on 03-01-1997. The Special Court convicted him on 17-03-2006 in Special Criminal Case No.3/1998, and the High Court (Urmila Joshi-Phalke, J.) applied the s.20 presumption on proved gratification, dismissing the appeal.",
 "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": {
   "t2w3-29-009": "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": "t2w3-29-009=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2006-03-17); the previous value (2024-10-07) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (ACB) v. Nagpur Police Police Head Constable and others",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2024-10-07",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}