{
 "case_id": "t2w3-30-002",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-30-002": {
   "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 confirms Spl Judge Kumbakonam convicted HC; sentence reduced 2yr to 1yr.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Thanjavur",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thanjavur at Kumbakonam",
 "case_title": "State and v. Thanjavur Police Head Constable (A3)",
 "case_number": "Crl.A.(MD) Nos. 21 and 30 of 2018",
 "conviction_date": "2017-12-22",
 "conviction_year": 2017,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2002-06-20",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable (A3)",
   "unit": "CS-CID",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable (A3), CS-CID",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7 r/w IPC s.34",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2) r/w IPC s.34"
 ],
 "sentence": "2 years RI on each count (concurrent), reduced to 1 year RI on appeal",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43207994/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Madras High Court, Madurai Bench (Crl.A.(MD)Nos.21 & 30 of 2018, Justice K.K. Ramakrishnan, recording and confirming trial conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43207994/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) records that Head Constable of the CS-CID received the Rs.10,000 bribe amount at the direction of his superior officers in the June 2002 trap, with phenolphthalein-positive hands. The Special Judge-cum-CJM, Thanjavur at Kumbakonam convicted him on 22.12.2017 under PC Act sections 7 and 13(1)(d). On 15.05.2025 the High Court confirmed the conviction but reduced the 2-year RI term to 1 year.",
 "court_quote": "The Trap Laying Officer/P.W.10 conducted phenolphthalein test in the hands of A3 and the same was turned into pink color and the amount was recovered under the recovery mahazar.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-30",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-30-002": "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": "t2w3-30-002=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2017-12-22); the previous value (2025-05-15) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (DV&AC Thanjavur, Cr.No.5 of 2002) v. Thanjavur Police Head Constable (A3)",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2025-05-15",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}