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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0006",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0339",
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 "display_title": "Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.",
 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": "Panchkula",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Panchkula",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 2126 of 2010",
 "citation": "(2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486",
 "judges": [
  "V. Gopala Gowda",
  "R. K. Agrawal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-09-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "1990-08-12",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 354"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "IPS officer",
   "unit": "Haryana Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gpt:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.04,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "IPS officer, Haryana Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 15,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Panchkula girl, age 15",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": 15,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a 15-year-old girl"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 0.5,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30822518/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/09/23/ruchika-girhotra-case-s-p-s-rathores-conviction-upheld-sentence-mitigated-due-to-old-age/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/ruchika-molestation-case-sc-upholds-rathods-conviction-reduces-jail-term"
 ],
 "summary": "The Supreme Court confirmed the Section 354 IPC conviction of senior IPS officer for molesting 15-year-old tennis player a 15-year-old girl in his lawn-tennis association office garage in Panchkula on 12 August 1990. The Court held the eyewitness account of her friend a minor girl, who saw [name withheld] grab a 15-year-old girl hand and waist, was unimpeachable, and rejected the false-implication defence. It reduced the 18-month sentence to the period already undergone of about six months as a special case given his advanced age, health, family illness and prolonged trial. a 15-year-old girl died by suicide in December 1993 after alleged prolonged harassment of her family. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court confirmed the Section 354 IPC conviction of senior IPS officer for molesting 15-year-old tennis player a minor girl in his lawn-tennis association office garage in Panchkula on 12 August 1990. The Court held the eyewitness account of her friend a minor girl, who saw [name withheld] grab a minor girl hand and waist, was unimpeachable, and rejected the false-implication defence. It reduced the 18-month sentence to the period already undergone of about six months as a special case given his advanced age, health, family illness and prolonged trial. a minor girl died by suicide in December 1993 after alleged prolonged harassment of her family.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the foregoing discussion, we confirm the conviction of the appellant-accused under Section 354 of the IPC while modifying the sentence to the period already undergone.",
 "court_quote_para": "36",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "s.354 conviction of IPS officer confirmed; 18-month sentence cut to period undergone as special case.",
 "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": "(2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2016-09-23",
   "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": "(2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486",
   "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": [
    "court_quote"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30822518/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/09/23/ruchika-girhotra-case-s-p-s-rathores-conviction-upheld-sentence-mitigated-due-to-old-age/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/ruchika-molestation-case-sc-upholds-rathods-conviction-reduces-jail-term",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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  "chunk-42"
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 "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-020",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}