Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 14 · Decided 18 January 1990
State of Maharashtra v. Chandraprakash Kewal Chand Jain
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 14 · [1990] 1 S.C.R. 115
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 221/1986
- Decided
- 18 January 1990
- Bench
- A.M. AHMADI, M. FATHIMA BEEVI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 342; Evidence Act Section 39, 114, 118, 133
Headnote
B Indian Evidence Act-Sections 39, 114, 118 and 133--Victim of sex offence-Victim of crime-Court to evaluate evidence so as to protect rights of women extent of corroboration needed-Notion that except in rarest of rare cases, the evidence of the prosecutrix cannot be accepted unless corroborated by persons in authority-Police officer-Court to give deterrent puniSh­ ment. c The respondent, a Sub-Inspector of police, was convicted under D section 376 .of I.P.C. for having committed rape on a young newly married girl of 19 or 20 years of age, by the Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur.
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