Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 249 · Decided 4 April 2014
Vinod Kumar v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 249 · [2014] 4 S.C.R. 752
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 821/2014
- Decided
- 4 April 2014
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, VIKRAMAJIT SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 417, 419
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: s. 376 - Rape - Consent - Consensual sexual relationship - Allegation against appellant C that he entered into marital relations with the prosecutrix without disclosing to her the fact of his being already married - Defence case that the prosecutrix was well aware that the for registration of marriage - Trial court convicted u/s.376 - High D Court though noted that friendship between the coup/~ strengthened into close acquaintance· and eventually leading them to elope, still convicted the appellant and treated prosecutrix as victim - On appeal, held:
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