Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 218 · Decided 13 September 1972
Gurcharan Singh v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 218 · [1973] 2 S.C.R. 197
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 232/1969
- Decided
- 13 September 1972
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 366, 376, 362, 368; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
197 Indian Pental Code (Act 45 of 1860). •'-362. 366 and 376--Girl iinder 16 years forced to go to a place where rape was committed on Tw­ Effect of absence of marks of violence or person of victim. Practice-Sexual ofjence-Necessitv for corroboration. · A girl under 16 years was appellant who forcibly took her to his fields outside the village and committed rape on her. The appellant was convicted for offences under ss. 366 and 376 I.P.C. The medical evidence showed that there was penetration but no marks of violence on the victim's person. Dismissing the appeal to this
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