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 "case_id": "t2w3-30-004",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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  "t2w3-30-004": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-084",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T11:23:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Spl Court Trichy convicted HC (Papanadu PS) on 09-03-2012; Madras HC dismissed appeal on 13-12-2018.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Thanjavur",
 "court": "Special Court for Trial of Cases under Prevention of Corruption Act, Tiruchirappalli",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court for Trial of Cases under Prevention of Corruption Act, Tiruchirappalli",
 "case_title": "State v. Thanjavur Police Head Constable 295",
 "case_number": "Spl.C.No.138/2011; Crl.A.(MD)No.44/2012 (Madras HC, Madurai Bench)",
 "conviction_date": "2012-03-09",
 "conviction_year": 2012,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2002-09-04",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable 295",
   "unit": "Papanadu Police Station, Thanjavur District",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable 295, Papanadu Police Station, Thanjavur District",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 year 6 months RI (s.13) + 3 years RI (s.7), concurrent as confirmed on appeal",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/55203699/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Madras High Court, Madurai Bench (Crl.A.(MD)No.44 of 2012, Justice P. Velmurugan, recording and confirming trial conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/55203699/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Madras High Court records that Head Constable of Papanadu Police Station demanded Rs.1,000 to close a criminal case against the complainant's son and was caught in a V&AC trap at the station gate on 04.09.2002. The Special Court for PC Act Cases, Tiruchirappalli convicted him on 09.03.2012 under PC Act sections 7 and 13(1)(d). On 13.12.2018 the High Court dismissed his appeal and confirmed the conviction and sentence.",
 "court_quote": "In the result, the Criminal Appeal stands dismissed, confirming the judgment of conviction and sentence.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-30",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-30-004": "wrong_facts"
  },
  "applied": [
   "sentence"
  ],
  "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": "t2w3-30-004=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "sentence"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC Thanjavur) v. Thanjavur Police Head Constable 295",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}