Supreme Court of India
Prasad @ Santosh Kumar v. The State of Bihar
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In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, the appeal is allowed.
Judgment, page 13
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Penal Code, 1860: ss.376(1), 450 – Rape – Prosecution case was that the accused-appellant committed rape on prosecutr ix who was his brother’s wife – Conviction by courts below, solely based on deposition of prosecutrix – Appeal against conviction – He ld: It cannot be disputed that there can be a conviction solel y based on the evidence of the prosecutrix – However, the evid ence must be reliable and trustworthy – In the instant case, not on ly there were material contradictions in the deposition of the prose cutrix, but as per the version of the prosecutrix even the manner in which the
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