Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 448 · Decided 28 July 2010
Satpal Singh v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 448 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 50
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 763/2008
- Decided
- 28 July 2010
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 201, 217; Evidence Act Section 35
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.376: c Rape - Conviction - Challenged on the ground of inordinate delay in lodging the FIR - Held: Challenge not tenable since the delay was satisfactorily explained - The delay occurred because of the intervention of the village Panchayat which tried to bring about a investigative machinery only after the Panchayat disagreed to impose fine and punishment as suggested by him on the accused. Rape - Conviction - Challenged on the ground that prosecutrix and the accused were studying in the same school E and knew each other and it was a case of consent for
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