Supreme Court of India

Amar Bahadur Singh v. State of U.P.

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Reported as [2011] 2 S.C.R. 243
Bench Harjit Singh Bedi and Chandramauli Kr. Prasad JJ.
Decided 25 January 2011

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Penal Code, 1860: s.376- Rape -Allegation of rape on 8 · prosecutrix in her house - Prosecutrix was 26 years of age and mother of seven children - Rape allegedly committed in the presence of her children and other family members - Trial court convicted the accused u/s.376 and sentenced him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years - High Court reduced the sentence from seven to five years observing that the facts indicated that the prosecutrix ·was a consenting party - On appeal, held: The possibility of commission of rape in the presence of so many members in a small house is not

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