Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 492 · Decided 24 July 2013
Kailash v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 492 · [2013] 7 S.C.R. 780
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2260/2009
- Decided
- 24 July 2013
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(1), 306; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: s.376(1) - Rape of a girl aged about 15 years - Suicide committed by her - Conviction by courts below uls 376(1) with sentf3nce of 10 years RI - Held: Keeping in view the evidence of the eye-witness, supported by other witnesses, the medical 0 report and the forensic laboratory found proved against appellant by trial court as well as High Court cannot be faulted - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.313. The daughter of PW-2, aged about 15 years, E committed suicide by hanging herself in her house. The trial court considering the post-mortem report, forensic
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)