Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 216 · Decided 18 March 2024
MS. X v. MR. A and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 216 · [2024] 3 S.C.R. 947
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1661/2024
- Decided
- 18 March 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, RAJESH BINDAL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(1)(w)(i), 3(2)(v), 3(2), 375; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Whether the High Court erred in quashing the criminal proceedings by exercising the powers under Section 482 of Cr.P.C in a complaint alleging offences under Sections 354D, 376(2)(n), 504 and 506 read with 34 of the Penal Code, 1860 and Sections 3(1)(r), 3(1) (s), of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. Crime Against Women - Sexual intercourse based on promise of marriage - The Appellant-prosecutrix believed that the accused would marry her leading her to consent to establishing a sexual
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