State v. Maharashtra Police Police personnel (rank not stated)
The 2nd Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur, in Sessions Trial No.301/2001 convicted a police-department employee of strangling his wife on 24 February 2001 over unfulfilled dowry demands, sentencing him to death under IPC s.302 plus 3 years RI under s.498-A (acquitted under s.304-B); the trial judgment's exact date is not stated in the orders on record. On 11 August 2003 the Bombay High Court (Criminal Appeal No.141/2003 with Confirmation Case No.2/2003) upheld the conviction but commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. The cited source is a later Bombay High Court order of 26 November 2024 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 38 of 2024, which records this history.
This page documents a trial-court conviction from the cited sources below. It is not a High Court or Supreme Court finding; the conviction may have been appealed. Findings are attributed to the convicting court; this record does not add findings of its own.
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By judgment (date not stated in the sources; before the Bombay High Court decided the appeal on 11 August 2003), the 2nd Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur convicted the Police personnel (rank not stated), Maharashtra Police.
- Register number
- MH 31 CW 0017
- Case reference
- Criminal Writ Petition No. 38 of 2024; reported in the judgment of the Bombay High Court
- Court and date
- The 2nd Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police personnel (rank not stated), Maharashtra Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The Sessions Court believing the testimony of PW-1 [name withheld], brother of deceased and PW-11 [name withheld], convicted the petitioner for an offence punishable under Section 302 of IPC and sentenced him to be hanged till death.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: Life imprisonment for murder (IPC s.302): the Sessions Court's death sentence was commuted to life by the Bombay High Court on 11 August 2003. Also 3 years RI and Rs 3,000 fine under s.498-A; acquitted under s.304-B
- Present status of the proceedings
- The conviction was affirmed in appeal.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
2nd Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur convicted the accused police personnel on date not stated; before the Bombay High Court decided the appeal on 11 August 2003. The conviction was upheld on appeal. Appeal text.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: Life imprisonment for murder (IPC s.302): the Sessions Court's death sentence was commuted to life by the Bombay High Court on 11 August 2003. Also 3 years RI and Rs 3,000 fine under s.498-A; acquitted under s.304-B.
Sections: IPC 302; IPC 498A
Appeal status
Upheld on appeal. Appeal text