Supreme Court of India

Zindar Ali Sk v. State of West Bengal & Anr.

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Reported as [2009] 1 S.C.R. 968
Bench Tarun Chatierjee and V.S. Sirpurkar JJ.
Decided 6 February 2009

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PENAL CODE, 1860: c ss. 376 and 417-Accused committing rape on prosecutrix-Later assuring to marry her repeatedly committing sexual intercourse with her-Ultimately, refusing to marry her-Police declining to register FIR-On direction of Magistrate case registered-Conviction by trial court- Affirmed by High Court-HELD: On the basis of evidence of prosecutrix as corroborated by other evidences, both the courts below rightly held the accused guilty of rape-But, offence u/s 417 not made out- Conviction u/s 376 upheld- Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, sentence of 10 years RI

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