Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 317 · Decided 11 May 2006
Om Prakash v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 317 · [2006] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 318
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 629/2006
- Decided
- 11 May 2006
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 37fr, 376; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act
Headnote
PRAKASH v. STATE OF U.P. MAY 11, 2006 [AR1JIT PASAYAT AND S.H. KAPADIA, JJ] Penal Code, 1860-Section 37fr-Rape-Accused related lO parents of victim -Rape in veranda of Zila Parishad near Court premises where accused had come to help husband of victim, who had been arrested the previous day, to to record conviction- Correctness of--There was no apparent reason for a married woman to falsely implicate accused after scatting her own prestige and honour--Victim of sexual assault is not treated as accomplice and as such, her evidence does D not require corroboration from any other
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