Supreme Court of India
Hemudan Nanbha Gadhvi v. State of Gujarat
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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
Authorities it was built on
- 2006 Zahira Habibullah Sheikh and Anr. v. State of Gujarat and Ors.
- 2003 Visveswaran v. State Rep. by S.D.M.
- 2012 State Tr. P.S. Lodhi Colony, New Delhi v. Sanjeev Nanda
- 2014 Nar Singh v. State of Haryana
- 2015 Iqbal and Another v. State of Utiar Pradesh
- 2016 Shelkh Sintha Madhar @ Jaffer @ Sintha Etc v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police
- 2008 Mahila Vinod Kumari v. State of Madhya Pradesh
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