Supreme Court of India
Utpal Das & Anr. v. State of West Bengal
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We are of the opinion that there are no· material contradictions in their evidence so as to disbelieve their evidence.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.376134- Conviction under- Held: Evidence of eye-witness supporting prosecution case ;.;.·There was no material contradiction in the evidence of prosecutrix c and eye-witness in order to disbelieve them - Prosecutrix was a grown up lady with 2 children and in such circumstance absence of injuries on her private parts wo1.1/d not in any manner support the case of defence - Plea of consensual sex, · raised for the first time' before Supreme. Court, thus not .. sustainable - Crime against women - Rape. ·Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.164' - FIR and s.164 statement .-
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