Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999

Rambeer Shokeen was arrested on 1 December 2016 in connection with offences under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) and the Arms Act. The prosecution filed an application on 28 February 2017 for an extension of time to file the charge‑sheet, which was pending when the appellant filed a statut…

The State of Maharashtra alleged that the appellants were members of an organized crime syndicate operating the illegal "Mumbai Matka" gambling network. Police raided a gambling den, recorded confessions of several accused, including the appellants, by an Additional Superintendent of Police (Addl. SP) under Section 18 …

Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit, a serving Army officer, was accused of conspiring with others to plant a bomb in Malegaon in 2008, resulting in six deaths. The case was investigated first by the Anti‑Terrorist Squad (ATS) and later by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), leading to divergent charge‑sheets, with t…

Vinod G. Asrani and three others filed writ petitions challenging their prosecution under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA), arguing that no approval under s.23(1)(a) was obtained for investigating Asrani and that the subsequent sanction under s.23(2) was therefore invalid. The High Court exa…

The State prosecuted Vishwanath Maranna Shetty, accused No.9 in a Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) case, alleging that he managed funds for an organised crime syndicate and abetted the murder of Farid Tanasha. The Special Court denied his bail application, but the Bombay High Court later granted bail.…

The Supreme Court examined whether offences under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (including those committed during the period of the Essential Commodities (Special Provisions) Act, 1981) fall within the ambit of the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA). It held that the 1955 Act’s Section 7 sti…

The appellant, Nilesh Dinkar Paradkar, was convicted under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) and the IPC based largely on voice identification of a recorded telephone conversation. The High Court upheld his conviction while acquitting the other accused, relying on the officer's identification of th…

The appellants, two police officers, were accused of colluding with a counterfeit stamp syndicate and of fabricating false cases against rival gang members. After the Supreme Court ordered the investigation to be transferred to the CBI, the officers were charged under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCO…

The case arose from the investigation of a massive counterfeit stamp scam in which the former Pune Police Commissioner, Ranjitsing Sharma, was arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) on allegations that he had helped and supported members of the organized crime syndicate. The prosecution a…