Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1080 · Decided 26 August 2009
Tameezuddin @ Tammu v. State of (Nct) of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1080 · [2009] 14 S.C.R. 80
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1289/2004
- Decided
- 26 August 2009
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, AFTAB ALAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 506(ii)
Headnote
- ,._ PENAL CODE, 1860 c ss.. 376 and 506 allegations by prosecutrix and her husband of rape- on her-Doctor examining the prosecutrix ~ found no evidence of rape or any injury on her person - Conviction by trial court - Affirmed by High Court - Held: It is true that in a case of rape, evidence D be given predominant consideration, but to hold that her evidence has to be accepted even if the story is improbable and belies logic, would be doing violence to the very principles which govern the appreciation of evidence in a criminal matter - The prosecution story in the instant case is
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