# About

HTML version: [https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/about](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/about)

Babuwatch publishes 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. A further 22 trial-court convictions later set aside on appeal are kept out of the counts.

# What Babuwatch is

A public register of what India's courts decided about the people who exercise state power on the public's behalf.

Public servants hold power that ordinary citizens do not: to grant or withhold a licence, register a document, measure a plot of land, sanction a payment, arrest, or detain. When a court finds that power was abused, that finding is a public fact. It is usually scattered across court websites, agency annual reports and press releases, and it is soon forgotten. Babuwatch gathers it in one place.

One register covers every public servant: police officers and civil servants — the clerks, revenue officials, engineers, registrars and officers of every government department and local body. Every record sits in one list under one method, whatever the service.

### What we hold ourselves to

1. **Only what a court decided.** Every record rests on a court judgment or an official record of the conviction, and every finding is attributed to the court that made it.

2. **Say how far it was checked.** Every record shows its verification level and its appeal status as known from the sources.

3. **Names are earned, not assumed.** Officials are shown by post and department unless the naming gate clears a name. Complainants, victims and witnesses are never named.

4. **Correct in public.** A record we cannot stand behind is corrected or withdrawn, promptly and visibly.

### What Babuwatch is not

It is not a complaints service, a helpline or a legal service, and it does not forward reports to any authority. It is not a measure of how common corruption is: it shows the convictions that official sources record and that we could verify. Nothing on this site is legal advice.

Babuwatch is a [Data Libertarian](https://datalibertarian.in/) project.

## For AI agents

Agents can read a short map at [llms.txt](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/llms.txt), the full text at [llms-full.txt](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/llms-full.txt), or JSON at [cases.json](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/data/cases.json) (High Court / Supreme Court) and [tier2.json](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/data/tier2.json) (trial-court convictions); the combined [all-cases.json](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/data/all-cases.json) carries every published record as one array (set-aside included; rows carry a `tier` field, `hc_sc` or `trial`); the slim tracker index at [index.json](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/data/index.json) covers both tiers (rows carry a `tier` field), and single records sit under `/data/case/<record-id>.json`. Every page has a Markdown twin (this page: [about/index.md](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/about/index.md)); field definitions live in [schema.json](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/data/schema.json), the dataset descriptor in [dataset.jsonld](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/data/dataset.jsonld), and per-state slices under `/data/state/<state-slug>.json` (36 files). Officer names in text endpoints use gated display forms only.