Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 560 · Decided 18 December 2002
Sudhansu Sekhar Sahoo v. State of Orissa
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 560 · [2002] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 536
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 646/1994
- Decided
- 18 December 2002
- Bench
- Y.K. SABHARWAL, K.G. BALAKRISHNAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 342, 324
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-Sections 376 and 342-Rape and wrongful confinement-Past conduct of prosecutrix doubtful-Delay in filing FJR- C Prosecution case not corroborated by medical evidence-Conviction by Courts below-On appeal, held-Though such delay in lodging FIR is not serious and past conduct of prosecution case-Accused entitled to benefit of doubt and hence acquilled D Criminal trial-Rape cases-Sole evidence of prosecutrix-Reliability on-Held, conviction can be based solely on the evidence of the prosecutrix, provided the same inspires confidence in the mind of the Court . .
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