Supreme Court of India

Deepak Gulati v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2013] 6 S.C.R. 544

Bench Dr. B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra JJ.

Decided 20 May 2013

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10 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we are of the considered opinion that the appellant, who has already served more than 3 years G sentence, is entitled to the benefit of doubt.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 376, 365 and 90 - Rape and consem;ua/ sex - Distinction between - Allegation that appellant enticed the prosecutrix, wrongfully confined her and had sexual intercourse with her in lieu of his promise to marry her - Conviction of appellant by Courts below ulss. 365 & 376 - Challenge to - Held: In a case like this, the court must very carefully examine whether the accused had actually wanted to marry the victim, or had ma/a fide motives, and had made a false promise to this effect only to satisfy his lust, as the latter falls within the ambit of cheating or deception -

Authorities it was built on

2003 Uday v. State of Karnataka cited by 10
2004 Deelip Singh @ Dilip Kumar v. State of Bihar cited by 10
2006 Yedla Srinivasa Rao v. State of A.P. cited by 3
2007 Pradeep Kumar@ Pradeep Kumar Verma v. State of Bihar and Anr. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2025 Ravish Singh Rana v. State of Uttarakhand & Anr. relied on
2024 Mahesh Damu Khare v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2019 Pramod Suryabhan Pawar v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2018 Dr. Dhruvaram Murlidhar Sonar v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. relied on
2025 Rajnish Singh @ Soni v. State of U.P. and Another referred to
2025 Manish Yadav v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. referred to
2019 Anurag Soni v. State of Chhattisgarh referred to
2023 Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty & Anr v. Union of India mentioned
2023 Naim Ahamed v. State (nct of Delhi) mentioned
2020 Maheshwar Tigga v. The State of Jharkhand mentioned

Of those, 4 relied on · 3 referred to · 3 mentioned

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