Supreme Court of India
Mohd. Imran Khan v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi)
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above as we have seen the original record produced before us, we are of the considered opinion that the E prosecutrix was less than 16 years of age on the date of incident.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860- s.376 - Rape - Age of prosecutrix -Margin of error in age ascertained by radiological c examination - Held: The medical report and the deposition of the Radiologist cannot predict the exact date of birth, rather it gives an idea with a long margin of 1 to 2 years on either side. Penal Code, 1860 - s.376 - Rape - Testimony of prosecutrix - Appreciation of - Held: The statement of prosecutrix, if found to be worthy of credence and reliable, requires no corroboration - The court may convict the accused on the sole testimony of the prosecutrix - On facts, the trial court found
Authorities it was built on
- 1990 State of Maharashtra v. Chandraprakash Kewal Chand Jain
- 2010 Babubhai v. State of Gujarat & Ors. Etc.
- 2010 Vijay @ Chinee v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2011 State of U.P. v. Chhoteylal
- 2009 Wahid Khan v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2010 Javed Masood and Anr. v. State of Rajasthan
- 2009 Ram Suresh Singh v. Prabhat Singh @ Chhotu Singh & Anr.
Where later benches applied it
- 2013 Karan Singh v. State of Haryana and Anr.
- 2023 Maghavendra Pratap Singh @ Pankaj Singh v. State of Chhattisgarh
- 2015 Rajiv Singh v. State of Bihar & Another
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to
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