Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 907 · Decided 23 September 2016
S.P.S. Rathore v. C.B.I. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 907 · [2016] 5 S.C.R. 335
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2126/2010
- Decided
- 23 September 2016
- Bench
- V. GOPALA GOWDA, R.K. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 354; Evidence Act Section 45
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.354 - Essential ingredients - Discussed - In the instant case, appellant-accused, a very senior police officer of ihe State molested minor girl - PW-13 witnessed that the victim was in the grip of appellant-accused who was holding one hand of victim in his hand and his other his chest so as to embrace her while the victim was trying to push him back with her free hand-PW-13 withstood her testfmony from beginning till the end and her deposition was found reliable and corroborative with other prosecution wit11esses - Both the courts below rightly convicted the
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