Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 687 · Decided 1 December 2004
State of U.P. v. Pappu @ Yunus and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 687 · [2004] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 585
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1382/2004
- Decided
- 1 December 2004
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : S.376-Conviction by trial Court-Acquittal by High Court merely on the ground that prosecutrix was easy virtues-Held, the question to be C adjudicated was if the acpused committed rape on the victim on the occasion complained of-Appellate court should not inte1fere with findings is practically unreasoned, the matter is remitted back to it for fresh hearing-Practice and Procedure. Criminal Law: - Offence of rape-Testimony of prosecutrix-Appreciation of Prosecution case was that when the prosecutrix was alone at her home, the two accused-appellants entered her house
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