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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0078",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1383",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Chandigarh Man vs State Of Ut Chandigarh And Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Chandigarh Man vs State Of Ut Chandigarh And Others",
 "state": "Chandigarh",
 "district": "Chandigarh",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Special Investigation Team, Chandigarh Police",
 "court": "High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Chandigarh Man vs State Of Ut Chandigarh And Others",
 "case_number": "CRM-M No. 36362 of 2025",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "[name withheld]"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-07-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2025-03-13",
 "incident_year": 2025,
 "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": "adverse_finding",
 "sections": [
  "Section 109, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police (SIT in-charge)",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Chandigarh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent of Police (SIT in-charge), Chandigarh Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Chandigarh man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/60554382/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://theprint.in/judiciary/sit-making-craters-in-probe-hcs-earful-to-chandigarh-police-in-colonel-bath-assault-case/2692785/",
  "https://theprint.in/india/colonel-assault-3-months-ago-chandigarh-sit-was-handed-case-for-fair-probe-now-accused-cops-untraceable/2693325/",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/army-officer-assault-punjab-and-haryana-hc-says-chandigarh-police-probe-tainted-transfers-case-to-cbi",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/60554382/"
 ],
 "summary": "The High Court held that there are no prospects of a free and fair investigation of the assault case by the Investigating Agency of UT, Chandigarh. The Court found that the Chandigarh Police SIT was proceeding in a tainted manner to give benefit to the accused serving police officials and was trying to create loopholes in the investigation. The Court noted that the SIT called the accused untraceable though all were serving police officials and had already made up its mind to delete the attempt-to-murder charge. The Court withdrew the investigation from UT, Chandigarh with immediate effect and handed it to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The Supreme Court later dismissed the accused officers' petition challenging the transfer, leaving the High Court's order intact.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court held that there are no prospects of a free and fair investigation of the assault case by the Investigating Agency of UT, Chandigarh. The Court found that the Chandigarh Police SIT was proceeding in a tainted manner to give benefit to the accused serving police officials and was trying to create loopholes in the investigation. The Court noted that the SIT called the accused untraceable though all were serving police officials and had already made up its mind to delete the attempt-to-murder charge. The Court withdrew the investigation from UT, Chandigarh with immediate effect and handed it to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The Supreme Court later dismissed the accused officers' petition challenging the transfer, leaving the High Court's order intact.",
 "court_quote": "there are no prospects of free and fair investigation in the case",
 "court_quote_para": "quoted in report of judgment",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary source URL is invalid: indiankanoon.org/doc/136695872/ returns 'Invalid input: digits only' (no such document). All other case facts verified via ThePrint (2692785, 2693325), Bar and Bench (headline confirms tainted-probe/CBI-transfer), and a valid Indian Kanoon Supreme Court order (doc 60554382, SLP Diary No. 41450/2025) which confirms CRM-M No. 36362/2025, HC order dated 16-07-2025, and the Supreme Court's dismissal of the accused police officers' SLP on 04-08-2025.",
 "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": "2025-07-16",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "CRM-M No. 36362 of 2025",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)."
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/60554382/",
   "link_checked": null
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   "url": "https://theprint.in/judiciary/sit-making-craters-in-probe-hcs-earful-to-chandigarh-police-in-colonel-bath-assault-case/2692785/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://theprint.in/india/colonel-assault-3-months-ago-chandigarh-sit-was-handed-case-for-fair-probe-now-accused-cops-untraceable/2693325/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/army-officer-assault-punjab-and-haryana-hc-says-chandigarh-police-probe-tainted-transfers-case-to-cbi",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/60554382/",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}