Supreme Court of India

Hemudan Nanbha Gadhvi v. State of Gujarat

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Reported as [2018] 12 S.C.R. 672
Bench Ranjan Gogoi, Na Vin Sinha and K. M. Joseph JJ.
Decided 28 September 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that no prejudice can be said to have been caused to the appellant for that reason, as held in Nar Singh vs.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s.376(2)(f) – Sexual assault on minor – Accused-appellant was identified by pr osecutrix in test identification parade – However , six months later , while deposing during trial, the pr osecutrix and the other minor eye-witness denied the sexual assault and also declined dock identification – Acquittal by trial court – High Cour t reversed the or der of acquittal holding that the sexual assault on the pr osecutrix was established by medical r eport and that the appellant had won over the pr osecutrix by sheer passage of time and the consequent delay in trial but that it

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