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

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30822518/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2016-0006)

**Record:** CW-2016-0006 (compiler id CWC-0339); case SUPREM-020
**Title:** Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: V. Gopala Gowda; R. K. Agrawal
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 2126 of 2010 / (2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486
**Judgment:** 2016-09-23 (2016, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1990-08-12 (1990)
**Place:** Panchkula, Haryana; city town: Panchkula; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 354
**Officers (gated display forms):** IPS officer, Haryana Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Panchkula girl, age 15 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 0.5 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

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.

> 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.

**Sources (3):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30822518/); [scconline.com](https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/09/23/ruchika-girhotra-case-s-p-s-rathores-conviction-upheld-sentence-mitigated-due-to-old-age/); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/ruchika-molestation-case-sc-upholds-rathods-conviction-reduces-jail-term)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** other
**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'}
**anonymised:** True
**court quote para:** 36
**display title redacted:** Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': None, '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.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30822518/', 'link_checked': None}; {'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': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/ruchika-molestation-case-sc-upholds-rathods-conviction-reduces-jail-term', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** other
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** s.354 conviction of IPS officer confirmed; 18-month sentence cut to period undergone as special case.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': 15, 'gender': 'female', 'descriptor': 'a 15-year-old girl'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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