Supreme Court of India

Dinesh @ Buddha v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2006] 2 S.C.R. 793

Bench Arijit Pasa Yat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.

Decided 28 February 2006

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From the headnote

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989-Section 3(2)(v)-Applicabildy of-Rape of eight year old Scheduled Caste (SC) girl-No evidence that rape was committed on the victim since she was a member of the SC-Held, s. 3(2)(v) of the Atrocities Act not inapplicable- Hence, life imprisonment earlier awarded by Courts below by applying s.3(2)(v) of the Atrocities Act reduced to JO years imprisonment-Crime against Women-Penal Code, 1860-Section 376(2)(j). Penal Code, 1860: Section 228-Enactment of-Object-To prevent social victimization or ostracism of the victim

Authorities it was built on

1995 Sh. Bodhisattwa Gautam v. Miss Subhra Chakraborty cited by 12
2003 State of Karnataka v. Puttaraja cited by 10

Where later benches applied it

2019 Khuman Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh relied on
2012 State of Rajasthan v. Vinod Kumar relied on
2025 Raju @ Umakant v. The State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2025 State of Rajasthan v. Chatra referred to
2021 Patan Jamal Vali v. The State of Andhra Pradesh referred to
2018 Shajahan v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to

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