Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 564 · Decided 28 September 2020
Maheshwar Tigga v. The State of Jharkhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 564 · [2020] 9 S.C.R. 482
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 635/2020
- Decided
- 28 September 2020
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, NAVIN SINHA, INDIRA BANERJEE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 323, 341, 90; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.376, 323 and 341 - Prosecution under - Alleging that the accused raped the prosecutrix at the point of knife 4 years ago when she was 14 years old and had continued to establish physical relations with her under pretext of marriage By courts below - Appeal to Supreme Court - Held: There is wide variation in the evidence with regard to the age of prosecutrix - Trial court had found the prosecutrix to be 14 years of age on the date of incident on the basis of her deposition - In the absence of
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