Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 797 · Decided 10 July 2008
Bhupinder Singh v. Union Territory of Chandigarh .
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 797 · [2008] 10 S.C.R. 640
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1047/2008
- Decided
- 10 July 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P. SATHASIVAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 375, 376, 417
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 375 clause 'Forthly' and 376 .'­ Rape - Second marriage by accqsed concealing t(1e [act of c his first marriage - Complaint by second wife~ Convfction by trial court and sentence of 7 years RI -High court confirming the conviction, but reducing the sentence to 3 that the second wife had the knowledge ·about the first marriage of the accused:.. Compensation of Rs. 1,00,000( '( ( 0 - granted - On appeal, held: Conviction justified. - . The case is covered under clause 'Fourthly' of s .. 37~ -:: In ii)e facts of the r case delay in filing the
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