Supreme Court of India
Deelip Singh @ Dilip Kumar v. State of Bihar
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What the Court ordered
In the result, the conviction and sentence is set aside and the appeal is E allowed.
Judgment, page 21
From the headnote
Penal Code, I 860: Section 375, clause sixth- 'With or without her consent, when she is under I 6 years of age '-Invocation of-Held: Finding that victim girl less than I6 years on the date of first sexual intercourse not sustainable-Hence, clause sixth not atlracted Section 375, clause first-Sexual intercourse with victim girl 'against her wi/l'-Version of victim in court at variance with her version in FIR and as such improbable-Hence, cannot be said that victim subject to rape 'against her will'. Section 375, Clause second and section 376-Rape-Commission of Inducement to enter into sexual
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Manish Yadav v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
- 2018 Dr. Dhruvaram Murlidhar Sonar v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors.
- 2015 Parhlad and Anr. v. State of Haryana
- 2014 Vinod Kumar v. State of Kerala
- 2013 Kaini Rajan v. State of Kerala
- 2013 Deepak Gulati v. State of Haryana
- 2023 Naim Ahamed v. State (nct of Delhi)
- 2020 Centre for Public Interest Litigation v. Union of India
- 2006 Yedla Srinivasa Rao v. State of A.P.
- 2019 Anurag Soni v. State of Chhattisgarh
Of those, 4 relied on · 2 referred to · 3 mentioned · 1 not applicable
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