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 "record_id": "CW-2005-0007",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0335",
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 "display_title": "Punjab Police Director General of Police vs State (Admn., U.T. Chandigarh)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Punjab Police Director General of Police vs State (Admn., U.T. Chandigarh)",
 "state": "Chandigarh",
 "district": "Chandigarh",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Chandigarh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Punjab Police (then DGP)",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Punjab Police Director General of Police vs State (Admn., U.T. Chandigarh)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1032 of 1998 (with Crl.A. No. 430 of 1999)",
 "citation": "(2005) 6 SCC 161; AIR 2005 SC 3104",
 "judges": [
  "K.G. Balakrishnan",
  "B.N. Srikrishna"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2005-07-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2005,
 "incident_date": "1988-07-18",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 354",
  "IPC 509"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Director General of Police",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
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   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
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   "jev_risk": 0.21,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.85,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Director General of Police, Punjab Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Chandigarh woman",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a woman"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1292562/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed former Punjab DGP K.P.S. Gill's appeal (Crl. A. 1032/1998) and upheld his conviction under Sections 354 and 509 IPC for slapping the posterior of a woman senior IAS officer at a Chandigarh dinner party on 18 July 1988. The Sessions Judge had replaced the custodial sentence with release on probation and a Rs 50,000 fine (half to complainant), but the High Court in revision enhanced the fine to Rs 2,00,000 payable entirely to the prosecutrix plus Rs 25,000 costs — which the Supreme Court left undisturbed, noting the Rs 2 lakh lay in court deposit for disposal by the Punjab & Haryana CJ at the complainant's request (donation to a women's organisation). The Court also dismissed the complainant's appeal (Crl. A. 430/1999) seeking enhancement, noting Gill had completed probation without violation. The accused's conspiracy defence was recorded and rejected. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed former Punjab DGP K.P.S. Gill's appeal (Crl. A. 1032/1998) and upheld his conviction under Sections 354 and 509 IPC for slapping the posterior of a woman senior IAS officer at a Chandigarh dinner party on 18 July 1988. The Sessions Judge had replaced the custodial sentence with release on probation and a Rs 50,000 fine (half to complainant), but the High Court in revision enhanced the fine to Rs 2,00,000 payable entirely to the prosecutrix plus Rs 25,000 costs — which the Supreme Court left undisturbed, noting the Rs 2 lakh lay in court deposit for disposal by the Punjab & Haryana CJ at the complainant's request (donation to a women's organisation). The Court also dismissed the complainant's appeal (Crl. A. 430/1999) seeking enhancement, noting Gill had completed probation without violation. The accused's conspiracy defence was recorded and rejected.",
 "court_quote": "we find no merit in the appeal preferred by the accused. The appeal is dismissed accordingly.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Supreme Court dismissed Gill's appeal, upholding the ss.354/509 conviction (probation, Rs 50,000 fine); matches conviction_upheld.",
 "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": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2005) 6 SCC 161; AIR 2005 SC 3104",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2005-07-27",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2005) 6 SCC 161; AIR 2005 SC 3104",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1292562/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}