Babuwatch documents 2,443 court-adjudicated records against public servants — 522 civil servants and 1,921 police records, from 1168 Supreme Court / High Court judgments and 1275 trial-court convictions across India — each one attributed to the court that decided it.
A public record, not a complaints service. Findings are the courts’; names are withheld unless the naming gate clears them.
Open the tracker filtered to bribery and extortion cases — what the court found, which court decided it, and the source.
See these records → Fraud & misappropriationFraud, cheating, forgery and misappropriation of public money — each record carries the court’s finding and sentence.
See these records → Disproportionate assetsCases where courts found wealth beyond known sources of income, with the amounts as recorded.
See these records → Violence & unlawful detentionCustodial deaths and torture, unlawful detention and excessive force — what the courts found, and what followed.
See these records → Other misconductDereliction of duty, evidence tampering, false implication and other findings — browse the rest of the record.
See these records → The whole recordAll 2,443 published records in one list — every filter, every state, every year.
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See where complaints go →We record convictions and adverse court findings against public servants of every government in India — Union, state and local — and cite the court and the source for each one.
Every finding belongs to the court that made it. We add no findings of our own, and we say plainly how far each record has been verified.
Trial convictions can be appealed. Each record shows its appeal status as known from the sources, and convictions later set aside leave the counts.
Names are withheld unless a two-key naming gate clears them. Complainants, victims, witnesses and minors are never named.
One register covers every public servant — police officers and civil servants of departments, municipal bodies and other government offices alike. Every record passes the same verification and naming rules, whatever the service.
Read the methodology →2,443 published records (1168 High Court / Supreme Court · 1275 trial court) from 34 states and union territories. Each record attributes its findings to the court it cites; Babuwatch adds no findings of its own. A further 22 trial-court convictions later set aside on appeal are kept out of the counts.
The High Court recorded that a Joint Director General of Foreign Trade at Rajkot, arrested by the CBI in a bribery trap on 24.03.2023, was kept in his office overnight while the post-trap panchnama continued, and died on the morning of 25.03.2023 after, as a CBI constable reported, jumping from a window. Rajkot's…
Read the court recordThe High Court recorded that a man arrested in an FIR at New Usmanpur police station was released by a Karkardooma magistrate on 23.07.2026 because the grounds of arrest supplied to him bore no date or time and gave no details of the incident, as the Supreme Court requires in Mihir Rajesh Shah. Police re-arrested him…
Read the court recordThe High Court recorded that a sand-mining businessman, accused in a cheating and breach-of-trust FIR arising from what the informant himself called a civil dispute, was brought into P.S. Sardhuwa, Chitrakoot at 9:00 a.m. on 13.07.2026, taken out at 10:19 a.m. in the informant's vehicle accompanied by the…
Read the court recordRecords are updated as new information, appeals, or court findings emerge. Recent convictions may still be under appeal.
Live counts drawn from 2,443 published records show where adjudicated cases occur, how facts were verified, and what the courts decided.
The dashboard uses only published court-adjudicated records. It describes the cases documented here; it does not estimate how common misconduct is across India.
There are lawful routes, and free legal aid is a right for everyone who qualifies. Corruption by a public servant is reported to the authorities — your state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau or Vigilance department, the Lokayukta where one exists, the Central Bureau of Investigation for Union government employees, or the Central Vigilance Commission — and harm or unlawful detention can go to the courts and the human rights commissions. Take the sources on any record to a lawyer and keep copies of every complaint. Babuwatch itself is a record, not a complaints desk: contacting us does not notify any authority or begin any case.
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