Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 639 · Decided 19 September 2013
Kaini Rajan v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 639 · [2013] 10 S.C.R. 196
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1467/2013
- Decided
- 19 September 2013
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, A.K. SIKRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 375, 417
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.376 - Rape - Allegation that appellant raped PW2 - PW2 had previous acquaintance with C appellant, he being her elder brother's friend - Conviction of appellant by Courts below - Propriety - Held: The alleged incident occurred early morning at 8.30 AM and the place of the road - If PW2 had made any semblance of resistance or made any hue and D cry it would have attracted large number of people from the locality - Further the FIR was lodged 10 months after the alleged incident- All these factors cast some shadow of doubt on the version of PW2 - Further, strange
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