Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 162 · Decided 8 February 2022
Nawabuddin v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 162 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 1083
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 144/2022
- Decided
- 8 February 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(2)(i); Constitution Article 15, 39; POCSO Act Section 5, 6, 3(b), 5(m)
Headnote
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012: ss.5/ 6 - Penal Code, 1860 - s.376(2)(i) - Prosecution case was that the appellant-accused was neighbour of PW-1-informant - On the fateful day, when PW-1 went out of the house, appellant took four year old daughter of clothes as well as clothes of the victim girl and fondled her private parts and penetrated his finger into the vagina of the victim girl - Some persons spotted the accused and caught him red handed - Trial Court as well as the High Court convicted the accused for the offences under
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