Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 1295 · Decided 13 December 2007
Ujjagar Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 1295 · [2007] 13 S.C.R. 653
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1044/2006
- Decided
- 13 December 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376, 309
Headnote
Penal Code, I 860: ss.376, 302-Rape and murder-Deceased, niece of appellant C staying with him after strained relations with in-laws-Found dead with gun shot injury-Appellant also with gun shot injury lying unconscious in ac,fjoining room-Trial Court relying on circumstances convicted appellant Court D maintained convictions and sentences-Challenge against-Held: There were no injuries on person of deceased to indicate attempt or commission of rape though vaginal swabs and clothes taken from dead body indicated presence of semen-Hence even assuming that sexual intercourse between
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