{ "record_id": "CW-1995-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1101", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Hisar", "district_at_time": "Hissar", "city_town": "Hisar", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sadar, Hisar", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 15 of 1994", "citation": "AIR 1995 SC 1795; (1995) 3 SCC 214", "judges": [ "Dr. A. S. Anand", "Faizan Uddin" ], "judgment_date": "1995-05-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1995, "incident_date": "1994-01-15", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.2(c)", "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.12" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Hisar, Haryana Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Hisar, Haryana Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Superintendent of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Hisar, Haryana Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Additional Superintendent of Police, Hisar, Haryana Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector / Station House Officer", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Station Sadar, Hisar, Haryana Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector / Station House Officer, Police Station Sadar, Hisar, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hisar man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hisar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.25, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1877695/", "secondary_sources": [ "http://advocatetanmoy.com/dhananjay-sharma-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-02-05-1995/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 2 May 1995 convicted three Haryana Police officers — SP, Addl. SP and SHO of Sadar, Hissar — of criminal contempt in a habeas corpus case. The Court, acting on a CBI enquiry report, found that a Hisar man and taxi driver [name withheld] had been illegally detained at Hissar police station from 15 to 17 January 1994, that the officers filed false affidavits denying the detention, and that two of them tutored the driver to give false evidence while proceedings were pending. The Court rejected their apologies as not genuine, calling their conduct a calculated obstruction of justice. It sentenced the SP to two months' simple imprisonment and the other two to three months each with fines of Rs. 1,500, while dropping perjury proceedings and declining compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 2 May 1995 convicted three Haryana Police officers — SP, Addl. SP and SHO of Sadar, Hissar — of criminal contempt in a habeas corpus case. The Court, acting on a CBI enquiry report, found that a Hisar man and taxi driver [name withheld] had been illegally detained at Hissar police station from 15 to 17 January 1994, that the officers filed false affidavits denying the detention, and that two of them tutored the driver to give false evidence while proceedings were pending. The Court rejected their apologies as not genuine, calling their conduct a calculated obstruction of justice. It sentenced the SP to two months' simple imprisonment and the other two to three months each with fines of Rs. 1,500, while dropping perjury proceedings and declining compensation.", "court_quote": "respondents 3 to 5 have, thus committed a grave contempt of this Court by not only interfering with the due course of justice but also making calculated and deliberate attempts to obstruct the administration of justice.", "court_quote_para": "42", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC convicted Hissar SP, Addl SP and SHO of criminal contempt over illegal detention, false affidavits and tutoring a witness.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1995-05-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1995 SC 1795; (1995) 3 SCC 214", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "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 record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1877695/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "http://advocatetanmoy.com/dhananjay-sharma-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-02-05-1995/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-98" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }