Supreme Court of India

Uday v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2003] 2 S.C.R. 231

Bench N. Santosh Hegde and B.P. Singh JJ.

Decided 19 February 2003

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10 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In the result, this appeal must succeed, and is accordingly allowed.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860-Sections 376 and 90-Rape-Prosecutrix aged 19 years alleging that accused was .having sexual intercourse with her, inducing to consent on the promise that he would marry her-Accused failing in his promise and prosecutrix becoming pregnant-Complaint under Section 376- Conviction-High Court upholding the same-Justification of-Held: Evidence on record leads to the conclusion that prosecutrix freely, voluntarily and consciously consented to having sexual intercourse with the accused and her consent was not in consequence of any misconception of fact-Also there is no evidence to

Authorities it was built on

2001 The State of Maharashtra v. Ritesh, S/o Vasudeo Wanjari cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2025 Biswajyoti Chatterjee v. State of West Bengal & Anr. relied on
2020 Maheshwar Tigga v. The State of Jharkhand relied on
2019 Pramod Suryabhan Pawar v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2018 Dr. Dhruvaram Murlidhar Sonar v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. relied on
2015 Parhlad and Anr. v. State of Haryana relied on
2025 Manish Yadav v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. referred to
2013 Karthi @ Karthick v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police, Tamil Nadu referred to
2013 Deepak Gulati v. State of Haryana referred to
2013 Dilip v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2019 Anurag Soni v. State of Chhattisgarh not applicable

Of those, 5 relied on · 4 referred to · 1 not applicable

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