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  "t2-14-007"
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   "mverify": "accept",
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 "verified_by": "t2verify-chunk-02",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-17T22:58:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "CBI special court Chandigarh convicted ex-DGP [name withheld] u/s 354 IPC on 22.12.2009 for molesting [name withheld] a [name withheld]; agent subcategory 'molestation' corrected to 'other'.",
 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": "Panchkula",
 "court": "Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Haryana Police Inspector General of Police at time of offence (former Director General of Police, Haryana, at verdict)",
 "case_number": "Challan No. 3/17-11-2000 (CJM, Chandigarh)",
 "conviction_date": "2009-12-21",
 "conviction_year": 2009,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1990-08-12",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Inspector General of Police at time of offence (former Director General of Police, Haryana, at verdict)",
   "unit": "Haryana Police (also headed Haryana Lawn Tennis Association)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector General of Police at time of offence (former Director General of Police, Haryana, at verdict), Haryana Police (also headed Haryana Lawn Tennis Association)",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 14,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Panchkula girl, age 14"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 354"
 ],
 "sentence": "6 months RI + Rs 1,000 fine (21 December 2009); enhanced to 18 months RI on revision (Sessions court, 25 May 2010); Supreme Court upheld guilt but reduced sentence to period already undergone (5 months) considering advanced age (23 September 2016)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 0.5,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/ruchika-molestation-case-sc-upholds-rathods-conviction-reduces-jail-term",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30822518/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "http://www.topnews.in/ruchika-case-rajya-sabha-discusses-matter-accused-dgp-gets-sixmonth-jail-term-2246433",
  "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruchika_Girhotra_case",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/12136724/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/ruchika-molestation-case-sc-upholds-rathods-conviction-reduces-jail-term",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/09/23/ruchika-girhotra-case-s-p-s-rathores-conviction-upheld-sentence-mitigated-due-to-old-age/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh, convicted former Haryana DGP on 21 December 2009 under section 354 IPC for molesting a teenage tennis player in the HLTA office in 1990, after a CBI prosecution following the family's 19-year fight. The trial court gave six months, enhanced to 18 months rigorous imprisonment on revision in May 2010. The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld the conviction, and on 23 September 2016 the Supreme Court (Justices Gowda and Agrawal) upheld the finding of guilt while reducing the sentence to the five months already served as a special case given his very advanced age.",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-07",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-07-009": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
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  {
   "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 row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-07-009=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Duplicate record t2-14-007 (same Ruchika case) merged into this record. Primary source is now the Supreme Court judgment S.P.S. Rathore v. C.B.I. (23.09.2016), which dates the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh conviction to 21.12.2009; the old URL redirects here."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Haryana Police Inspector General of Police at time of offence (former Director General of Police, Haryana, at verdict) and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}