Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1266 · Decided 1 December 2009
Wahid Khan v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1266 · [2009] 15 S.C.R. 1207
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1798/2008
- Decided
- 1 December 2009
- Bench
- J.M. PANCHAL, DEEPAK VERMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 366, 376, 342
Headnote
. Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 366 and 376 - Rape on 12 years ,.\_ old girl - Prosecution for - FIR lodged by prosecutrix immediately after the incident - A police official who found c the accused red-handed, corroborating the evidence of prosecutrix - Medical report showing no rupture of who examined the prosecutrix - ,. Conviction uls. 376 and acquittal u/s. 366 by Courts below - On appeal, Held: Accused liable to be convicted - Evidence D ii t- of prosecutrix is consistent and corroborated by evidence of police officer - Non-examination of doctor not fatal - Ev~n if hymen was
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