Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 897 · Decided 26 November 2024
Mahesh Damu Khare v. The State of Maharashtra & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 897 · [2024] 11 S.C.R. 886
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 4882/2024
- Decided
- 26 November 2024
- Bench
- B.V. NAGARATHNA, N KOTISWAR SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 420, 504, 506; CrPC Section 482; POCSO Act
Headnote
The High Court dismissed the petition filed u/s.482 of CrPC for quashing FIR registered u/ss.376, 420, 504 and 506 IPC holding, inter alia, that the offence under Section 376 of IPC is an offence against the society which would require further investigation and does not warrant interference. Penal Code, 1860 - s.376, 420, 504 and 506 - Complainant filed a complaint alleging that the appellant had cheated on her by forcibly engaging in sexual intercourse without her consent in his house and in the rented rooms from 2008
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