Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 369 · Decided 18 June 2013
Roop Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 369 · [2013] 4 S.C.R. 287
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1345/2005
- Decided
- 18 June 2013
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, GYAN SUDHA MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 450; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B ss. 376 and 450 - Rape - Consent - Connotation of - c Explained - Held: The evidence on record is clear that the victim was not a willing party to the sexual intercourse committed by the accused and it cannot be said that she voluntarily participated in it after fully it be held that the accused was D falsely implicated in the offences. The appellant was convicted and sentenced to 7 years RI uls 376 IPC and 3 years RI u/s 450 IPC for committing rape on her neighbor, the complainant (PW5), in the night when she and her sister-in-law (PW4) were E sleeping in
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