Supreme Court of India

Premiya @ Prem Prakash v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2008] 13 S.C.R. 769
Bench Dr. Arijit Pasayat and Dr. Mukundakam Sharma JJ.
Decided 22 September 2008

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Penal Code, 1860: s. 354 - Essential ingredients - Held: Person assaulted . c must be a woman - Accused must have used criminal force on woman intending thereby to outrage her modesty - Mere knowledge that modesty of woman is likely to be outraged is sufficient without any deliberate intention of having such out- rage alone for its object - On facts, from the evidence of pros- ecutrix, it is clear that accused outraged her modesty but did not raped her - Thus, taking into account the evidence and other aspects, conviction of accused u/s 376 altered to one u! s. 354 - Accused having undergone

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