Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 358 · Decided 5 May 2011
State of Maharashtra v. Ravikant Shankarappa Patil & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 358 · [2011] 5 S.C.R. 1180
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 262/2005
- Decided
- 5 May 2011
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 386, 25, 148, 452, 149, 366, 342; Constitution Article 136; Arms Act Section 25(1)(a), 25(1)
Headnote
PENAL CODE 1860: c ss.376,386 read with ss.148,, 4521149, 3661149, 3421149, 3231149, 506 (2)1149 /PC and S. 25(1) (a) of the Arms Act­ Allegation against main accused that he threatened the prosecutrix and her family members and married the prosecutrix and raped her - Other accused prosecuted -Conviction by trial court-Acquittal by High Court holding that the father and the brother of prosecutrix acted as vakils of the prosecutrix and gave consent for the marriage and in consideration Mehar was given and there was a/so a valid Nikahnama - Held: The judgment of the High Court
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