Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 393 · Decided 8 May 2024
Selvamani v. The State REP. BY the Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 393 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 653
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 906/2023
- Decided
- 8 May 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 4; CrPC Section 164, 374
Headnote
Appellant was one of the five accused persons who were found guilty of committing the offence of gang rape and was convicted under Section 376(g) and 506(1) of Penal Code, 1860 and Section 4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Woman Act by the trial court. Whether in dismissing the appeal filed by the Appellant against the conviction when prosecutrix and witnesses turned hostile at the cross examination stage. Conviction upheld even when prosecutrix and other witnesses turned hostile - Correctness of: Held: In the present case, the
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