Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1097 · Decided 10 September 2025
Akhtar Ali @ Ali Akhtar @ Shamim @ Raja Ustad v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1097 · [2025] 9 S.C.R. 585
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3955/2025
- Decided
- 10 September 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376A, 363, 212, 120, 16, 17; POCSO Act Section 3
Headnote
Whether the conviction of the appellants, as recorded by the trial Court and affirmed by the High Court, deserves to be upheld or whether they are entitled to acquittal. Circumstantial evidence - Protection of Children Act, 2012 - ss.3 r/w 4, 5 r/w 6, 7 r/w 8 - Penal Code, 1860 - ss.376A, 363, 212, 120-B and 201 - Case of the prosecution that the deceased-minor girl was raped and sodomised and the accused-appellants were seen in close proximity to her shortly before she went missing
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