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Shatrughna Baban Meshram v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2020] 13 S.C.R. 1
Bench Uday Umesh Lalit, Indu Malhotra and Krishna Murari JJ.
Decided 2 November 2020

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the instruction challenged in this case does not violate the provisions of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Judgment, page 108

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – s.376(1), (2)(f), (i), (m), s.376- and s.302 – Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2 012 – s.6 – Rape and murder of a minor girl – two-and-a-half-year- old girl was subjected to sexual assault by her maternal uncle – The assault was accompanied by bites on the body of the victim – The ra pe was of such intensity that there was merging of vaginal and anal or ifices of the victim – The victim was taken to PW-6-doctor for medical attention but she was already dead – The Trial Cour t found circumstances establishing the guilt of the appellant-accuse d – The Trial

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