{
 "case_id": "t2w4-22-003",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w4-22-003": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-095",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T19:31:48Z",
 "verdict_note": "CBI index + 3 news reports corroborate conviction; subcategory corrected to other.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "court": "Special Court for trial of fake stamp paper cases, Karnataka, Bangalore",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court for trial of fake stamp paper cases, Karnataka, Bangalore (CBI-prosecuted case)",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Bangalore City Police Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (Inspector at time of offence) and others",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2009-04-15",
 "conviction_year": 2009,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1997-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (Inspector at time of offence)",
   "unit": "Bangalore City Police (Inspector, Kalasipalyam market police station in 1997)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (Inspector at time of offence), Bangalore City Police (Inspector, Kalasipalyam market police station in 1997)",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [],
 "sentence": "3 years rigorous imprisonment (sentenced 2009-04-17; granted bail after having undergone nearly 22 months)",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": "Central Bureau of Investigation (official press-release index title dated 20.04.2009) + Special Court for trial of fake stamp paper cases, Karnataka, Bangalore",
 "primary_source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090504101130id_/http://cbi.nic.in/pressreleases/pressrelease.php",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://s2sorigineconomictimes.timesofindia.co.in/news/politics-and-nation/telgi-sangram-and-six-others-convicted/articleshow/4406099.cms",
  "https://shivann.com/india/telgi-gets-7year-jail-term-in-fake-stamp-paper-case-4644",
  "https://topnews.in/node/152774"
 ],
 "summary": "The CBI's official press-release index records (release dated 20 April 2009) that 'Abdul Kareem Telgi, one police official and seven others' were 'sentenced [to] rigorous imprisonment with hefty fines in [the] Fake Stamp Paper case'. Contemporaneous reports identify the police official as [name withheld], retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Bangalore (Inspector of Kalasipalyam market police station in 1997, accused of abetting the stamp-paper racket and destroying evidence / filing a weak case to help Telgi's brother). The special court for fake stamp paper cases in Karnataka convicted Telgi, [name withheld] and six others on 15 April 2009; on 17 April 2009 Telgi got 7 years RI and [name withheld] 3 years RI, with bail granted to Singh as he had already undergone nearly 22 months. No appeal outcome is known.",
 "court_quote": "Abdul Kareem Telgi, one police official and seven others sentenced rigorous imprisonment with hefty fines in Fake Stamp Paper case",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w4-22",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w4-22-003": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "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": "t2w4-22-003=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI fake stamp paper case v. Bangalore City Police Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (Inspector at time of offence)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}