Supreme Court of India

Jarnail Singh v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2013] 8 S.C.R. 1044
Bench P. Sathasivam and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 1 July 2013

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the same would not be relevant F for the purposes of determining the age of the prosecutrix VW - PW6, specially in the background of the evidence led by the prosecution through Satpal (PW4) to establish.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 366, 376(g) & 120-8 - /legation that prosecurtix was forcefully taken away, and subjected to rape by the appellant and his three accomplices - Conviction of appellant - Justification - Held: Justified, in view of the statement of the prosecutrix uls. 164 CrPC, as a/so, the statement made by her before the trial court, and the manner in which she was subjected to cross-examination - Substantial material corroborating the statement of the prosecutrix for unequivocal determination of the guilt of the appellant - Prosecutrix was recovered from the custody of appellant and

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