Supreme Court of India

Tuka Ram and Anr. v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [1979] 1 S.C.R. 810
Bench Jaswant Singh, P. S. Kailasam and A. D. Koshal JJ.
Decided 15 September 1978

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Indian Penal ·Code Sec. 375-Rape-What is the meaning of without consent -Obtaining consent by putting fear of death or hurt--Crbninal trial-Onus is 011 prosecution to prove all the ingredients of an offence. The prosecution alleged that appellant No. I, the Police Head Constable and appellant No. 2 Police Constable attached to Desai Gunj Police Station raped Mathura (P.W. 1) in the police station. Mathura's parents died 'vhen she was a child and she was living with her brother, Gam3:. Both of them worked as JOOourers to earn a living. Mathura used to go to the house of Nunshi for work and

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