Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 757 · Decided 13 June 2008
Nehru @ Jawahar v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 757 · [2008] 9 S.C.R. 1186
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1279/2001
- Decided
- 13 June 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P.P. NAOLEKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376; CrPC Section 357(1)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 376 - Rape - Conviction by Courts below - Plea of inconsistency in prosecution version c and consent by the victim - Held: In view of the records of the case no inconsistency found - Statement of the victim does not disclose her consent - Conviction justified. took the plea that the prosecutrix consented to the act. D Prosecutrix told her age to be 14 years. In her statement she narrated how she struggled to free herself from the accused. Trial Court found her age to be around 16 years, but found absence of consent and convicted the accused. High
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