Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 335 · Decided 6 March 2025
Gyanendra Singh @ Raja Singh v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 335 · [2025] 3 S.C.R. 490
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1257/2025
- Decided
- 6 March 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(2)(f), 376(2)(i), 3, 4; CrPC; POCSO Act Section 42A, 42, 3, 4, 376(2)(f), 376(2)(i)
Headnote
Whether the conviction of the appellant ought to have been recorded under the IPC or whether the provisions of the Special law, i.e., Section 42A of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, would prevail thereby, vitiating the sentence awarded to the under Sections 376(2) (f) and 376(2)(i) of IPC. Sentence/Sentencing - Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 - ss.42, 42A - Interpretation - Penal Code, 1860 - ss.376(2)(f) and 376(2)(i) - Appellant convicted for offences
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