Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 1120 · Decided 28 November 2018
The State of Himachal Pradesh v. Manga Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 1120 · [2018] 14 S.C.R. 904
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1481/2018
- Decided
- 28 November 2018
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, INDIRA BANERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave granted
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.376 - Prosecutrix-PW-4 was staying in her aunt's house - Respondent-accused is son of the aunt - FIR filed stating that the respondent used to make the prosecutrix sleep with him and commit sexual intercourse with her the respondent - High Court reversed the conviction - On appeal, held: Trial court, which had the opportunity of observing and hearing the prosecutrix, recorded a finding of fact that the evidence of prosecutrix is convincing and inspires the confidence of the court - In
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