Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 7 · Decided 7 January 2009
Neku Khan & ORS. v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 7 · [2009] 1 S.C.R. 70
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 100/2002
- Decided
- 7 January 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 147, 3231149, 342, 458, 323, 149, 366
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860- ss.376, 147, 3231149, 342, 458 and c 366 - Rape and abduction - Five accused - Conviction of, on the ground that they assaulted the brother of prosecutrix, abducted the prosecutrix and thereafter accused no. 1 raped her - Appeal against conviction - Held: Plea that prosecutrix therefore there was no rape D or abduction cannot be accepted, as there was no evidence of marriage - Conviction of accused no. 1 thus upheld - Conviction of accused no.2 also upheld as his role was clearly established from evidence of prosecutrix and two other PWs - However, conviction of
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