Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 946 · Decided 4 October 2016
Raja and Others v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 946 · [2016] 9 S.C.R. 615
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1767/2011
- Decided
- 4 October 2016
- Bench
- PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(g), 366, 392
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.376(g)/366/392 rlw. s.34 - Prosecutrix alleged gang rape by appellants - Inconsistencies in FIR and the deposition of prosecutrix - Appellants acquitted by trial court - Acquittal reversed by High Court - Appellants pleaded false implication as they declined to oblige the On appeal, held: View taken by the trial court is overwhelmingly possible - In contrast, findings of High Court are decipherably strained in favour of the prosecution by overlooking many irreconcilable inconsistencies, anomalies and omissions rendering the prosecution case unworthy of credit -
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