How this record is made

chalosansad.com is a sourced record of the 2026 NEET paper leak protests and the July 20 Chalo Sansad march. This page explains the rules it runs on — what enters the record, what's left out, and why.

What enters the record

1. 1.No claim enters from a live blog. Live blogs are leads — something to check, not something to cite. Only dated, standalone reports become sources.
2. 2.No date is put on an entry unless the source itself carries that dateline. If a report doesn't say when something happened, neither do we.
3. 3.Any claim of detention, arrest, casualty, or use of force gets a dedicated search for a denial or retraction before it's written down. If the denial resolves the claim, that's what gets recorded — not the original, unretracted version.
4. 4.Anonymous-source claims carry their attribution in the text itself — "hospital sources say," not just "sources say" buried in a footnote. Named-individual allegations from untested petitions, courtroom filings, or party statements are left out of the record entirely.

An absence is also a claim and needs its own source. "No order has been published" is only written down when a named organisation or reporter has actually looked and said so — not assumed from silence.

How the record is organised

The record is built around one question: what the government committed to, and whether it kept its word. "Where the promises stand" takes each commitment the government made when the protest ended — to withdraw the cases, to compensate the families, to meet again on reform — and marks it done, not done, or deferred. It measures the government against its own commitments, not against anyone's demands. CJP's demands are recorded as CJP's demands; they are not adopted as the yardstick.

"Since the march" is the dated log of what happened, newest first. The scorecard is the standing summary and points back to that log: a development is written down once, as an event, and the scorecard says where it leaves the promise. The same fact is not kept in two places.

"What the government did" records the actions it took that were not part of the settlement — the re-examination, the agency overhaul, the new law. They are kept separate from the promises, so that a government's own initiative is not mistaken for a promise kept.

What's left out, and why

• Party statements and press conferences. Government acts — orders, court filings, official statements — are in the record. Party framing of those acts, from any party, is not. The record is not a stage for anyone's talking points.
• Adjectives that do the reader's thinking for them. Contradictory accounts are recorded flat and sourced, within the entry. The record doesn't tell you which one to believe.
• Claims that haven't survived a denial search. A serious allegation — someone detained, someone hurt, someone responsible — that turns out to be false or retracted doesn't get quietly dropped. It gets recorded as resolved, with both the claim and its retraction dated.
• Unverified claims, however dramatic. A claim sitting only in a live blog, a viral post, or a single unconfirmed tweet stays out until a standalone report exists.

Where accounts conflict

Where the official account and what reporters documented genuinely disagree — the purpose of the cameras at the protest site, what the prohibitory orders were used to stop — the record states both, each sourced, within the entry, and draws no conclusion of its own. You get the two versions and the links, not a verdict.

But a claim that has been resolved is recorded as resolved, not left as an open dispute. When an internal inquiry found that pellet rounds were fired, that is written as a fact, with the official silence noted beside it — not staged as one of two equal "accounts." Treating a confirmed finding and an unretracted denial as co-equal would understate the finding. That is why the record no longer keeps a separate "two accounts" section: a resolved fact belongs in the record as a fact, and a genuine dispute belongs inside the entry it concerns.

Sourcing standard

Wire copy, primary documents (court orders, government orders, official statements), and named on-the-record reporting are preferred. Metered or paywalled sources are used when they're the most credible account of something, not avoided on account of the paywall — but a free-access source is preferred when it says the same thing equally well.

When an outlet is just republishing wire copy, the record links the wire service directly, not the outlet sitting on top of it. But a wire agency is a medium, not a guarantee of neutrality — the content still gets read on its own terms, not waved through on the strength of the byline.

Quotes are kept short. Most of what a source says is described in plain language, with a link to read the original in full.

Independence

This record is compiled independently from public reporting. It is not affiliated with CJP, the Government of India, or any political party. Figures and quotes come from the linked sources — check them yourself; that's what the links are for.