Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 38 · Decided 11 January 2016
State of Assam v. Ramen Dowarah
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 38 · [2016] 1 S.C.R. 179
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 668/2011
- Decided
- 11 January 2016
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, ARUN MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 30213761454, 376, 454
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860 - ss.30213761454 - Prosecution under - Of respondent-accused alongwith co-accused - For the commission of offence of rape and thereafter causing death of prosecutrix setting her ablaze by pouring kerosene - Incident seen by brother of prosecutrix (minor witness-PW5) - In oral committed the acts - Trial Court convicted the respondent-accused while acquitting the co-accused - High Court acquitted the accused u!s.376 and altered the conviction u/s.302 to 304(Part II) holding that it was a consensual sexual intercourse and the accused set the prosecutrix D ablaze in the
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