SURESH B. KALANI vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Crl.A. No. 954/1998

The Supreme Court allowed the appeals of Suresh Kalani and Dr. Desai, quashing the charges framed against them in a TADA case arising from a September 1992 hospital shooting. The Court found that the evidence relied upon—witness statements, confessions of discharged co-accused, and self-exculpatory statements—was legally insufficient and inadmissible under the Evidence Act to frame charges, as presumptions cannot be drawn from speculation and confessions of non-jointly-tried accused carry limited evidentiary value without independent corroboration. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.