Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 624 · Decided 2 November 2020
Shatrughna Baban Meshram v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 624 · [2020] 13 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 763/2016
- Decided
- 2 November 2020
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, INDU MALHOTRA, KRISHNA MURARI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(1), 302, 376, 376A, 299, 300; POCSO Act Section 6
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.376(1), (2)(f), (i), (m), s.376-A and s.302 - Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 - s.6 - Rape and murder of a minor girl - A two-and-a-half-year-old girl was subjected to sexual assault by her maternal uncle - The assault the body of the victim - The rape was of such intensity that there was merging of vaginal and anal orifices of the victim - The victim was taken to PW-6-doctor for medical attention but she was already dead - The Trial Court found circumstances establishing the guilt of the
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