{
 "case_id": "t2w3-35-005",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-35-005": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-088",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T17:10:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Special Judge Mehsana's 1991 conviction confirmed; Gujarat HC dismissed appeal in 2007.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Mahesana",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge, Mehsana (Special (ACB) Case No.3 of 1986)",
 "case_title": "State vs Mahesana Police Police Head Constable (Jamadar (Investigation))",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "1991-11-22",
 "conviction_year": 1991,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1984-10-07",
 "incident_year": 1984,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Head Constable (Jamadar (Investigation))",
   "unit": "Kadi Police Station, Mehsana district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Head Constable (Jamadar (Investigation)), Kadi Police Station, Mehsana district",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "IPC s.161",
  "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 year RI + Rs.500 fine (s.161); 3 years RI + Rs.1,000 fine (s.5(2)); acquitted of IPC s.218 at trial",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1106743/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Special Judge, Mehsana via Gujarat High Court appellate judgment (C.K. Buch, 2007 CriLJ 3387)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1106743/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Police Head Constable. [name withheld], entrusted with investigation work as [name withheld] (Investigation) at Kadi Police Station, who on 07.10.1984 demanded illegal gratification for preparing a favourable investigation report and submitting it to the court early, was convicted on 22.11.1991 by the Special Judge, Mehsana in Special (ACB) Case No.3 of 1986 under s.161 IPC (1 year RI + Rs.500 fine) and s.5(2) of the PC Act 1947 (3 years RI + Rs.1,000 fine), and acquitted of IPC s.218. The Gujarat High Court (C.K. Buch, 13.06.2007) dismissed the appeal (pursued by his widow [name withheld] after his death) and confirmed the conviction and sentence.",
 "court_quote": "Hence, the present Criminal Appeal is hereby dismissed. The impugned judgment and order of conviction and sentence is hereby confirmed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-35",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-35-005": "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": "t2w3-35-005=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (1991-11-22); the previous value (2007-06-13) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State vs Mahesana Police Police Head Constable (Jamadar (Investigation)) and others",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2007-06-13",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}
