Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 192 · Decided 14 February 2020
Prasad @ Santosh Kumar v. The State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 192 · [2020] 2 S.C.R. 798
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 264/2020
- Decided
- 14 February 2020
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, M.R. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(1), 450
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.376(1), 450 - Rape - Prosecution case was that the accused-appellant committed rape on prosecutrix who was his brother's wife - Conviction by courts below, solely based on deposition of prosecutrix - Appeal against conviction - Held: It that there can be a conviction solely based on the evidence of the prosecutrix - However, the evidence must be reliable and trustworthy - In the instant case, not only there were material contradictions in the deposition of the prosecutrix, but as per the version of the prosecutrix
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