Supreme Court of India

State of Rajasthan v. N.K. - the Accused

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Reported as [2000] 2 S.C.R. 818

Bench Dr. A.S. Anand, R.C. Lahoti and S.N. Variava JJ.

Decided 30 March 2000

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we are of the opinion that the High Court has - committed a clear error of law in interfering with the judgment of the trial B court regarding proof of guilt of the accused.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Indian Penal Codi!, 1860 : Section 376-0.ffence under-Delay in lodging FIR satisfactorily ex- c plained-Testimony of prosecutrix corroborated by another witness and Medi- cal Evidence-Delay in medical examination-Absence of injuries on the body of the prosecutrix-Perpetrator of crime able bodied youth-Acquittal by High Court on presumption of the consent of the prosecuirix to the act-On appeal, Held, Prosecutrix is a witness of truth and her testimony inspires confidence--, Absence of injury is not necessarily an evidence to falsify the allegation or an evidence of consent-If prosecution has

Authorities it was built on

1990 State of Maharashtra v. Chandraprakash Kewal Chand Jain cited by 24
1995 Sh. Bodhisattwa Gautam v. Miss Subhra Chakraborty cited by 12

Where later benches applied it

2018 The State of Himachal Pradesh v. Manga Singh relied on
2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. relied on
2012 Jitender Kumar v. State of Haryana relied on
2025 Deepak Kumar Sahu v. State of Chhattisgarh referred to
2025 Raju @ Umakant v. The State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2018 State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) v. Pankaj Chaudhary and Ors. referred to
2014 State of Rajasthan v. Roshan Khan & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 3 relied on · 3 referred to · 1 mentioned

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