Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 383 · Decided 26 May 2004
Sakshi v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 383 · [2004] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 723
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 33/1997
- Decided
- 26 May 2004
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, G.P. MATHUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 354, 375, 376, 277, 377; CrPC Section 273, 327; Constitution Article 20(1), 14, 20, 21
Headnote
OF INDIA MAY 26, 2004 [RAJENDRA BABU, CJ. AND G.P. MATHUR, J.] Penal Code, 1860: Sections 354, 375, 376 & 277/Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Sections 273 & 327 A B Sexual violence against women and children-Writ Petition for C enlargement of scope of Sections 3751376 !PC so as to provision that by itself is a reason for not ascribing to it a broader meaning than it would ordinarily bear. It is D not appropriate to alter the definition of rape by way ofjudicial interpretation when there appears to be no ambiguity in it-Prosecution of an accused for an offence under
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