Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 675 · Decided 3 December 2020
Chaman Lal v. The State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 675 · [2020] 12 S.C.R. 1000
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1229/2017
- Decided
- 3 December 2020
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, M.R. SHAH, R. SUBHASH REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 506, 375; CrPC Section 378, 313
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - ss.378, 313 - Appeal against acquittal - FIR lodged against appellant-accused alleging that when the prosecutrix used to go to jungle to graze goats and cattle, appellant also used to come there and had - Trial Court acquitted the appellant for offences u/ss.376, 506, IPC on the grounds of delay in FIR and that the prosecutrix was not of unsound mind as alleged - Acquittal reversed by High Court - Held: It has been proved that the prosecutrix was mentally retarded and she
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