# Mumbai Police personnel v. State of Maharashtra and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 6 March 2019 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 4845 of 2015, the Bombay High Court (Coram: B. P. Dharmadhikari, Revati Mohite Dere, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 11 police personnel, namely: Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police.

- Register number: MH 01 CW 0032
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 4845 of 2015 / AIR Online 2019 Bom 936
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: B. P. Dharmadhikari, Revati Mohite Dere, JJ.), 6 March 2019
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 364 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 365 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 368 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 344 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 119 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 432 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Courts cannot be expected to be silent spectators to such decisions, which are blatantly perverse and unsustainable in law.” (at para 26)
- 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/20913765/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2019-0025)

**Record:** CW-2019-0025 (compiler id CWC-1146); case GAP3-25-001
**Title:** Mumbai Police personnel v. State of Maharashtra and Others
**Court:** Bombay High Court; judges: B. P. Dharmadhikari; Revati Mohite Dere
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 4845 of 2015 / AIR Online 2019 Bom 936
**Judgment:** 2019-03-06 (2019, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2006-11-11 (2006)
**Place:** Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra; city town: Mumbai; police station or unit: D.N. Nagar / Versova Police Stations; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 364; IPC 365; IPC 368; IPC 344; IPC 201; IPC 119; IPC 120B; CrPC 432
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police; Police personnel, Mumbai Police (11 in record)
**Victims:** Mumbai man; Mumbai man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. On 11 November 2006, personnel of the D.N. Nagar and Versova police stations abducted Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhanbhaiya and \[name withheld\], and Gupta was shot dead in what was projected as an encounter. A Magistrate inquiry under section 176(1A) CrPC concluded the encounter was fake, leading to an SIT, FIR and the conviction of 21 accused including 11 policemen, sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sessions Court on 12 July 2013. While their appeals were pending, the State suspended the policemen's sentences for six months under section 432 CrPC and released them. The High Court held the suspension order perverse and bad in law, showing non-application of mind and reliance on irrelevant material, and quashed it, restoring the operation of the life sentences. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Courts cannot be expected to be silent spectators to such decisions, which are blatantly perverse and unsustainable in law.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/20913765/); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-hc-state-govts-order-us-432-release-11-cops-conviction-fake-encounter-case-143387)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing
**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:** 26
**display title redacted:** Mumbai Police personnel v. State of Maharashtra and Others
**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 Bombay High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Bombay High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'AIR Online 2019 Bom 936', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2019-03-06', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Bombay High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Bombay High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': 'AIR Online 2019 Bom 936', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/20913765/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-hc-state-govts-order-us-432-release-11-cops-conviction-fake-encounter-case-143387', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**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:** Bombay HC quashed the 2 Dec 2015 s.432 CrPC suspension of the life sentences of 11 policemen convicted in the Lakhanbhaiya fake encounter; Sessions Court convictions restored.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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