Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 615 · Decided 30 April 2025
Raju @ Umakant v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 615 · [2025] 6 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2377/2025
- Decided
- 30 April 2025
- Bench
- SANJAY KAROL, K.V. VISWANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3(2)(v), 1989, 376(2)(g), 366, 342; Evidence Act Section 114A
Headnote
Whether the conviction of the appellant under Sections 366, 376(2)(g) and 342, Penal Code, 1860 and Section 3(2)(v), Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 is justified. Penal Code, 1860 - Explanation 1 to Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - s.3(2)(v) - Appellant convicted u/ss.366, 376(2)(g) and 342, IPC and s.3(2)(v), 1989 Act - Challenge to: Held: In a case of gang rape u/s.376(2)(g), IPC an act by one is enough to render all in the gang for punishment as long as
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