STATE OF MAHARASHTRA vs SANJAY — Crl.A. No. 648/1998

Case Summary: State of Maharashtra v. Sanjay The Supreme Court dismissed the State's appeal against the High Court's acquittal of Sanjay, who was originally convicted under Section 302 IPC for murdering his fiancée Veena by setting her on fire on September 28, 1991. The Court found the prosecution's case unreliable, particularly rejecting the dying declarations as internally inconsistent and the eyewitness testimony as improbable. Key contradictions included conflicting accounts of whether the petrol can was in the victim's hand or the scooter's dicky, and the Court determined that neither the homicide nor suicide narratives were credible given the physical circumstances of the incident. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.