Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 700 · Decided 20 September 2011
Haresh Mohandas Rajput v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 700 · [2011] 14 S.C.R. 921
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2030/2009
- Decided
- 20 September 2011
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and 376 - Rape followed A B by murder of a minor girl by strangulation - Prosecution case based on circumstantial evidence - Conviction of accused- C appellant under ss. 302 and 376 /PC - Justification of - Held: Dead body of deceased was found inside the house stains under the cot - There were blood stains on the bed-sheet and on the floor underneath the cot - The appellant could not offer any D explanation whatsoever as how the dead body of the victim girl could reach his house - More so, nothing on record to controvert the evidence of the doctor
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