Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 72 · Decided 2 June 1983
Sheikh Zakir v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 72 · [1983] 3 S.C.R. 312
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 440/1974
- Decided
- 2 June 1983
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, V. BALAKRISHNA ERADI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376; Evidence Act Section 133
Headnote
It' H 312 SHEIKH ZAKIR • v. STATE OF BIHAR June 2, 1983 [E. S. VENKATARAMIAH AND V. BALAKRISHNA BRAD!, JJ.) Evidence Act-s. 133 and illustration (b) lo s. I 14-Evidence of victim of .rape-Whether an offender can be convicted on uncorroborated 1esli1nony of victim of rape-In what the complainant, her husband and two other witnrsses, one of whom had deposed that· he had seen the appellant on the body of the victim while the other had stated that he had seen the appellant fleeing away fron1 the scene of occurrence. The High Cotirt dismissed the appeal and
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