Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 830 · Decided 15 July 2008
Moti Lal v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 830 · [2008] 10 S.C.R. 983
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1092/2008
- Decided
- 15 July 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P. SATHASIVAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(1), 450; Evidence Act
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 376(1) and 450: Rape - Of married woman - Conviction - Challenge to - On facts, held: Suggestion given on behalf of defence that c the victim had falsely implicated the accused does not ap- peal to reasoning - No apparent reason for a married woman to falsely implicate the - Conviction accordingly upheld. ... Rape - Conviction - Parameters for - Corroboration is D t' not the sine qua non for conviction in a rape case - Victim is not an accomplice. Rape - Punishment - Sentencing· policy - Held: The .- measure of punishment in a case of rape cannot depend
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