# Sangli District Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra

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## Report card

By judgment dated 9 March 2004 in Criminal Appeal No. 522 of 1997, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Y. K. Sabharwal, Arijit Pasayat, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Police personnel, Sangli District Police Headquarters, Maharashtra Police.

- Register number: MH 10 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 522 of 1997 / (2004) 9 SCC 31; AIR 2004 SC 2678
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: Y. K. Sabharwal, Arijit Pasayat, JJ.), 9 March 2004
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Sangli District Police Headquarters, Maharashtra Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 27 of the Arms Act, 1959
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Both intention and knowledge in terms of Section 307 can be attributed to the accused. Therefore, the High Court was justified in recording conviction of the accused-appellant under Section 307 IPC.” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 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/1930505/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2004-0008)

**Record:** CW-2004-0008 (compiler id CWC-1110); case GAP3-128-001
**Title:** Sangli District Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Y. K. Sabharwal; Arijit Pasayat
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 522 of 1997 / (2004) 9 SCC 31; AIR 2004 SC 2678
**Judgment:** 2004-03-09 (2004, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1983-07-18 (1983)
**Place:** Sangli, Maharashtra; city town: Sangli; police station or unit: Sangli Police Headquarters (magazine-room/guard-room duty); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 307; Arms Act 1959 s.27
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Sangli District Police Headquarters, Maharashtra Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Sangli man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 5 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of policeman for attempting to murder his sleeping colleague-relative a Sangli man with a service.303 rifle at the Sangli police headquarters guard room on 18 July 1983. The Court held intention and knowledge under Section 307 IPC proved, the bullet having struck the cot springs with splinters piercing the victim's leg, and sustained the Bombay High Court's upgrade of the trial court's Section 324 conviction to Section 307. It observed that a guardian of law firing in a public place deserved severe punishment but reduced the Section 307 term from ten to five years' RI given the peculiar background. The Arms Act conviction was maintained; the appeal otherwise stands dismissed.

> Both intention and knowledge in terms of Section 307 can be attributed to the accused. Therefore, the High Court was justified in recording conviction of the accused-appellant under Section 307 IPC.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1930505/); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609ae05e4b0149711412b8b)
**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:** False
**court quote para:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Sangli District Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra
**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': 'holds', 'corrections_applied': \[\]}
**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': '(2004) 9 SCC 31; AIR 2004 SC 2678', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2004-03-09', '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': '(2004) 9 SCC 31; AIR 2004 SC 2678', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1930505/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609ae05e4b0149711412b8b', '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:** Police accused's s.307 IPC + Arms Act conviction upheld (private/family dispute, not colour of duty); sentence cut 10 to 5 years RI.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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