# State Reserve Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra

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## Report card

By judgment dated 19 October 2006 in Criminal Appeal Nos. 1512-1513 of 2005, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. B. Sinha, Dalveer Bhandari, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Police personnel, State Reserve Police, Maharashtra.

- Register number: MH 00 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal Nos. 1512-1513 of 2005 / (2006) 12 SCC 512
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. B. Sinha, Dalveer Bhandari, JJ.), 19 October 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, State Reserve Police, Maharashtra
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We, therefore, have no hesitation in affirming the judgment of the learned Sessions Judge as also the High Court and hold that the circumstances brought on record by the prosecution clearly demonstrate that it was Appellant alone who committed the …” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment.
- 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/1160791/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0027)

**Record:** CW-2006-0027 (compiler id CWC-1113); case GAP3-129-001
**Title:** State Reserve Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: S. B. Sinha; Dalveer Bhandari
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal Nos. 1512-1513 of 2005 / (2006) 12 SCC 512
**Judgment:** 2006-10-19 (2006, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1988-09-03 (1988)
**Place:** Maharashtra; police station or unit: State Reserve Police, Maharashtra; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 302
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, State Reserve Police, Maharashtra (1 in record)
**Victims:** Maharashtra woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of \[name withheld\], an employee of the State Reserve Police, against his concurrent conviction under Section 302 IPC for the murder of a Maharashtra woman on 3 September 1988. The Court credited the last-seen evidence of PWs 1, 3 and 4, corroborated by medical evidence, and held absence of proved motive immaterial in a circumstantial case of this kind. It found the circumstances amply supported the prosecution case and dismissed the appeal, leaving the courts-below sentence standing. The offence was private-context, not under colour of police duty; the SC text states no district or sentence terms. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We, therefore, have no hesitation in affirming the judgment of the learned Sessions Judge as also the High Court and hold that the circumstances brought on record by the prosecution clearly demonstrate that it was Appellant alone who committed the murder and in that view of the matter absence of motive would be immaterial.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1160791/)
**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:** State Reserve 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': '(2006) 12 SCC 512', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2006-10-19', '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': '(2006) 12 SCC 512', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1160791/', '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:** Murder conviction of serving SRP employee upheld on last-seen + medical evidence (private-context offence); sentence terms unstated.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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