Supreme Court of India

Jugendra Singh v. State of U.P.

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Reported as [2012] 6 S.C.R. 193
Bench Dr. B. S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 29 May 2012

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with the case, we may note that the appellant has created a situation by which a nine year old girl o who believed in him as a co-villager and went with him in total innocence breathed her last before she could get into her blossom of adolescence.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 376 read with s. 511 - Accused causing c death of a 9 year old girl by strangulation in an attempt to commit rape on her - Acquittal by trial court - Conviction by High Court - Life imprisonment awarded - Held: Medical report clearly says that the death was caused due to asphyxia as a result of throttling - From the evidence of witnesses and 0 the medical evidence, only a singular view is possible that the accused had made an attempt to commit rape and he was witnessed while he was strangulating the child with a shirt - The trial Judge had given unnecessary

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Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to

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