{
 "case_id": "t2w3-30-005",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-30-005": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-084 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:31:38Z",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal; confirmed Spl Judge Salem conviction of SI; sentence merged to single 1yr.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Salem",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge and I Additional District Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Salem",
 "case_title": "State v. Salem Police Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 1045 of 2000",
 "conviction_date": "2000-10-20",
 "conviction_year": 2000,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1991-01-23",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Mecheri Police Station, Salem",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Mecheri Police Station, Salem",
   "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 RI under each count (concurrent); on appeal modified to a single 1 year RI under s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1302893/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Madras High Court (Crl.A.No.1045 of 2000, Justice A.C. Arumugaperumal Adityan, recording and confirming trial conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1302893/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56090282e4b014971115961e"
 ],
 "summary": "The Madras High Court records that Sub-Inspector of Mecheri Police Station demanded and received Rs.500 from a complainant on 23.01.1991 for initiating proceedings in a pending assault case. The Special Judge, Salem convicted him on 20.10.2000 under PC Act sections 7 and 13(1)(d). On 13.04.2007 the High Court dismissed his appeal, confirming the conviction while merging the sentence into a single 1-year RI term.",
 "court_quote": "In the result the appeal is dismissed confirming the Judgment of the learned Special Judge in Spl.C.C.No.98 of 1991 on the file of Special Judge and First Additional District Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Salem.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-30",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-30-005": "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": "t2w3-30-005=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2000-10-20); the previous value (2007-04-13) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC Salem, Cr.No.1/AC/Spl.91) v. Salem Police Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2007-04-13",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}