# Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 23 November 2022 in Criminal Appeal No. 1301 of 2018, the Bombay High Court (Coram: Sarang V. Kotwal, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone (Constable).

- Register number: MH 01 CW 0036
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 1301 of 2018
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: Sarang V. Kotwal, J.), 23 November 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone (Constable)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 506 Part I of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
- Finding of the Court (extract): “All these factors considered together or even separately, point unerringly to the guilt of the appellant. The prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.” (at para 25)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine.
- 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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/bombay-hc-2-447515.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0033)

**Record:** CW-2022-0033 (compiler id CWC-0775); case GAP2-12-003
**Title:** Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.
**Court:** Bombay High Court; judges: Sarang V. Kotwal
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 1301 of 2018
**Judgment:** 2022-11-23 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2014-05-07 (2014)
**Place:** Mumbai City, Maharashtra; city town: Mumbai (Sion); police station or unit: Sion Police Station (C.R. No. 155/2014); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 377; IPC 506 Part I; POCSO Act s.4
**Officers (gated display forms):** Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone (Constable) (1 in record)
**Victims:** Mumbai boy, age 17 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. On 7 May 2014 a 17-year-old boy who had left home after a quarrel accepted a motorcycle lift near Shanmukhananda Hall, Sion, from Vilas Kaldhone, who said he was police personnel; Kaldhone took him to a building terrace and sexually assaulted him at knifepoint. PW-10 deposed that Kaldhone was a constable who had been suspended from service much before the incident. The trial court convicted him under Section 377 IPC, Section 506 Part I IPC and Section 4 POCSO Act with 10-year concurrent terms on 12 April 2018. The court held the DNA match on the victim's underwear clinching, rejected the defence claim of semen collection at the police station, and maintained the conviction while reducing the substantive sentences to the 8-plus years already undergone, above the then 7-year POCSO minimum, citing good jail conduct. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> All these factors considered together or even separately, point unerringly to the guilt of the appellant. The prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

**Sources (3):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/bombay-hc-2-447515.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-high-court-pocso-case-conviction-former-cop-dna-evidence-medical-evidence-215776); [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/reduction-of-sentence-constable-sexual-assault-minor-boy-good-behaviour-in-jail-1451270)
**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:** 25
**display title redacted:** Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone v. State of Maharashtra & 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': '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': 'Criminal Appeal No. 1301 of 2018', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2022-11-23', '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': 'Criminal Appeal No. 1301 of 2018', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/bombay-hc-2-447515.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-high-court-pocso-case-conviction-former-cop-dna-evidence-medical-evidence-215776', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/reduction-of-sentence-constable-sexual-assault-minor-boy-good-behaviour-in-jail-1451270', '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:** Suspended constable's POCSO/s.377 conviction upheld on DNA and medical evidence; sentence cut to time undergone.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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