{ "record_id": "CW-2026-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0116", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haji Mohd. Altaf vs State; [name withheld] vs State NCT of Delhi; Rajouri Garden Man (deceased) thr. LRs vs State", "display_title_redacted": "Haji Mohd. Altaf vs State; [name withheld] vs State NCT of Delhi; Rajouri Garden Man (deceased) thr. LRs vs State", "state": "Delhi", "district": "West Delhi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rajouri Garden", "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. Rajouri Garden", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haji Mohd. Altaf vs State; [name withheld] vs State NCT of Delhi; Rajouri Garden Man (deceased) thr. LRs vs State", "case_number": "CRL.A. 286/2016, CRL.A. 326/2016, CRL.A. 691/2016", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Chandrasekharan Sudha" ], "judgment_date": "2026-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2000-08-29", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 120-B", "IPC 193", "IPC 195", "IPC 218", "IPC 465", "IPC 389" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Post Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Police Post Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rajouri Garden man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 4, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/10180339/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://lawstreet.co/judiciary/innocent-man-framed-in-false-rape-case-delhi-hc-upholds-conviction-of-lawyer-si-enhances-compensation-to-3-lakh" ], "summary": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeals of lawyer Haji Mohd. Altaf (A1) and SI (A2) and upheld their 2016 conviction for conspiring to frame a Rajouri Garden man in a fabricated gang-rape case on 29 August 2000, to avenge an earlier molestation complaint and extort money. The SI prepared false records, arranged the PCR van and planted hair in the car; a Rajouri Garden man was arrested, beaten in custody and harassed through protracted proceedings until DNA evidence exonerated him and the Crime Branch discharged him in April 2001. The Court held accomplice testimony admissible, observed a more stringent sentence was warranted, and enhanced the compensation to a Rajouri Garden man's legal representatives to the entire fine of Rs 3,00,000. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeals of lawyer Haji Mohd. Altaf (A1) and SI (A2) and upheld their 2016 conviction for conspiring to frame a Rajouri Garden man in a fabricated gang-rape case on 29 August 2000, to avenge an earlier molestation complaint and extort money. The SI prepared false records, arranged the PCR van and planted hair in the car; a Rajouri Garden man was arrested, beaten in custody and harassed through protracted proceedings until DNA evidence exonerated him and the Crime Branch discharged him in April 2001. The Court held accomplice testimony admissible, observed a more stringent sentence was warranted, and enhanced the compensation to a Rajouri Garden man's legal representatives to the entire fine of Rs 3,00,000.", "court_quote": "A2, a police officer, whose duty is to prevent crimes, has in complete disregard to the same, indulged in acts which are in no way justifiable.", "court_quote_para": "39", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Delhi HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; SI's fabrication-conspiracy conviction upheld, victim compensation raised to Rs 3L.", "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 Delhi High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "CRL.A. 286/2016, CRL.A. 326/2016, CRL.A. 691/2016", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2026-04-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "CRL.A. 286/2016, CRL.A. 326/2016, CRL.A. 691/2016", "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_para", "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/10180339/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawstreet.co/judiciary/innocent-man-framed-in-false-rape-case-delhi-hc-upholds-conviction-of-lawyer-si-enhances-compensation-to-3-lakh", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-28" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFALSEI-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }