State v. Mumbai Police Police Constable
The City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay (Judge Shridhar S.M. Bhosale), in Sessions Case SC 309/2014, on Saturday 30 January 2016 convicted four Vanrai (Goregaon) police constables — Chandrakant Kamble, Kiran Pingle, Umesh Gosavi and one more — for torturing 20-year-old theft suspect [name withheld] to death in custody on the night of 26 October 2013 (56 injuries; post-mortem: head injury with multiple injuries), sentencing each to 7 years RI plus Rs.10,000 fine under IPC ss.304-II and 330; the first custodial-death conviction in Maharashtra, secured after appointment of special PP Rati Amrolia. Convicts' appeals (Crl A. 236/241/250 of 2016) and the victim family's appeals (271/2016, 243/2018) were still pending before the Bombay High Court as of 24 July 2025 (stood over to 25-09-2025).
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 dated 30 January 2016, the City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay (Judge S.M. Bhosale) convicted 4 police personnel, namely: Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai; Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai; Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai; Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai.
- Register number
- MH 01 CW 0024
- Case reference
- Sessions Case SC 309/2014
- Court and date
- The City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay (Judge S.M. Bhosale), 30 January 2016
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai; Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai; Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai; Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 330 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Judge Shridhar Bhosale at the City Civil Court and Sessions Court on Saturday convicted four police constables charged with the murder of 20-year-old a Mumbai man, the son of vegetable [name withheld] parents, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and …”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: 7 years RI + Rs.10,000 fine each
- Present status of the proceedings
- An appeal is pending; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay (Judge S.M. Bhosale) convicted the accused police personnel on 30 January 2016. An appeal is pending; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: 7 years RI + Rs.10,000 fine each
Sections: IPC 304 Part II; IPC 330
Appeal status
Appeal pending. Appeal text