Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 509 · Decided 2 November 1999
State of Himachal Pradesh v. Lekh Raj and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 509 · [1999] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 286
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1174/1999
- Decided
- 2 November 1999
- Bench
- S. SAGHIR AHMAD, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 376(2)(g), 323
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860. Section 376-Rape-Statement of Prosecutrix-Corroboration-Whether C mandatory-Held, there is no requirement of law to insist upon corroboration of such statement-If the prosecutrix believed to be truthful witness, no corroboration may be insisted-Under the facts and corroboration-Absence of dead or mobile spermatozoa not fatal. D E F Criminal Trial-Test Identification Prade-Prosecutrix seeing the accused for the first time in court after occurrence-No identification parade conducted­ Accused not known to prosecutrix-Accused not mentioned in FIR-Held,
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