Supreme Court of India

Utpal Das & Anr. v. State of West Bengal

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Reported as [2010] 6 S.C.R. 495
Bench B. Sudershan Reddy and Aftab Alam JJ.
Decided 7 May 2010

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What the Court ordered

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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