Supreme Court of India

Naravan @ Naran v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2007] 4 S.C.R. 1096
Bench S.H. Kapadia J.
Decided 10 April 2007

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the prosecution failed to establish the charges framed against the appellant for the offences punishable under Settions 376 and 392 IPC. The conviction as well as sentences imposed upon the appellant for the offences punishable under Sections 376 and 392 IPC are accordingly set aside.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860;· Ss. 376 and 392: i Rape-Accused allegedly raped prosecutrix thrice in a tractor-trolly and snatched her gold tops. and cash-FIR-Charge-sheet-Trial Court found accused guilty of committing offences ulss. 376 and 392 /PC, convicted and sentenced him accordingly-Affirmed by High Court-On appeal, Held: Evidence of prosecutrix is full of contradictions-Her evidence do not corroborate from evidence of any of the witnesses, fhore particularly from evidence of PW-6, who is a material witness-Prosecutrix miserably failed to eslabiish the charges ulss. 379 and 392-Hence, the

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