State vs Maharashtra Police Police Constable
The Additional Sessions Judge, Wardha convicted Police Constable on 27-03-2000 under Section 302 r/w 34 IPC and sentenced him to life imprisonment for murdering Police Inspector. As recorded by the High Court, a Wardha man had reprimanded [name withheld] at roll call for pocketing a Rs. 25 fine from a rickshaw driver without receipt, and the same midnight [name withheld] and a colleague went to a Wardha man's quarters with knives and killed him on the spot. The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench, S.B. Deshmukh and M.T. Joshi JJ.) in Criminal Writ Petition No. 30 of 2013 decided on 26-02-2013 dismissed [name withheld]'s remission-categorisation challenge, holding the murder premeditated.
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 26 February 2013, the Additional Sessions Judge, Wardha convicted the Police Constable, Maharashtra Police, Wardha (unit not stated in judgment).
- Register number
- MH 32 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Writ Petition No. 30 of 2013; reported in the judgment of the Bombay High Court
- Court and date
- The Additional Sessions Judge, Wardha, 26 February 2013
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Constable, Maharashtra Police, Wardha (unit not stated in judgment)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Petitioner [name withheld] was convicted on 27.3.2000 by the Additional Sessions Judge, Vardha for the offence punishable u/s 302 r/w. 34 of the Indian Penal Code. He was sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: Imprisonment for life
- Present status of the proceedings
- No appeal is known from the cited sources.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Additional Sessions Judge, Wardha convicted the accused police personnel on 26 February 2013. No appeal is known from the cited sources.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: Imprisonment for life
Sections: IPC 302 r/w 34
Appeal status
No appeal known.