CW-2016-0006Panchkula, HaryanaJudgment 23 September 2016

Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.

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.

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By judgment dated 23 September 2016 in Criminal Appeal No. 2126 of 2010, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: V. Gopala Gowda, R. K. Agrawal, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the IPS officer, Haryana Police.

Register number
HR 03 CW 0004
Case reference
Criminal Appeal No. 2126 of 2010 / (2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486
Court and date
Supreme Court of India (Coram: V. Gopala Gowda, R. K. Agrawal, JJ.), 23 September 2016
Officer(s) at the material time
IPS officer, Haryana Police
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
Finding of the Court (extract)
“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.” (at para 36)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 0.5 years.
Present status of the proceedings
No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.

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The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 23 September 2016 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.

Recorded allegations

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OtherPrimary
Material fact supported

Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.

Official finding: supports allegation.

What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“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.” (para 36)

Institutional response

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Date not established

Conviction

Concluded
Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment) External · Binding

The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.

Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: (2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486
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23 Sep 2016

Order issued

Concluded
Supreme Court of India External · Binding

The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.

Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: (2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486
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Follow-up history

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19 Sep 2026

(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))

Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.

Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.

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