Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 360 · Decided 17 March 2025
State of Rajasthan v. Chatra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 360 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 95
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 586/2017
- Decided
- 17 March 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376
Headnote
Whether the High Court erred in reversing the conviction of the respondent-accused under Section 376, Penal Code, 1860 for the rape of a minor girl and acquitting him. Penal Code, 1860 - s.376 - Evidence of a child witness-victim - of the respondent-accused inter alia holding that the victim-child witness was indifferent/silent about the incident which was unlikely if the incident would have been true, and acquitted him - Challenge to: Held: There is no hard and fast rule qua testing the competency of a child
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