Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 182 · Decided 12 February 2019
Parkash Chand v. State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 182 · [2019] 3 S.C.R. 953
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2393/2010
- Decided
- 12 February 2019
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, K.M. JOSEPH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 506
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 376 and 506 - Rape - PW.2- prosecutrix alleged that appellant caught hold of her on a common path of villages and dragged her in the bushes - She raised hue and cry but nobody was there at the place of occurrence - Appellant committed rape on got pregnant - After 7 months of alleged commission of offence, FIR was lodged - Trial Court convicted appellant u/ss. 376 and 506 IPC - Conviction affirmed by the High Court - On appeal, held: High Court proceeded on the basis of testimony of prosecutrix and extra-
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