Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 909 · Decided 28 September 2018
Hemudan Nanbha Gadhvi v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 909 · [2018] 12 S.C.R. 672
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 913/2016
- Decided
- 28 September 2018
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, NAVIN SINHA, K.M. JOSEPH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(2)(f); CrPC Section 161; Evidence Act Section 45, 145
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.376(2)(f) - Sexual assault on minor - Accused-appellant was identified by prosecutrix in test identification parade - However, six months later, while deposing during trial, the prosecutrix and the other minor eye-witness denied the sexual dock identification - Acquittal by trial court - High Court reversed the order of acquittal holding that the sexual assault on the prosecutrix was established by medical report and that the appellant had won over the prosecutrix by sheer passage of time and the consequent delay
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