Supreme Court of India

The State of Maharashtra & Anr. v. Dr. Maroti S/o Kashinath Pimpalkar

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Reported as [2022] 8 S.C.R. 821
Bench Ajay Rastogi and C.T. Ravikumar JJ.
Decided 2 November 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that there is no evid ence to implicate the applicant in the said crime.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Quashing of .I.R. and charge sheet – Non Reporting of Sexual Assault – FIR regi stered against unidentified person(s) on the accusation of com mission of sexual offences against minor tribal girls who were residi ng in the girls’ hostel – Respondent is the medical practitio ner who was appointed for treatment of the girls in the said gir l’s hostel – He was arraigned as the sixth accused thereunder, essentia lly for the failure to report the commission of the offence under the POCSO Act, punishable u/s.21 (1) the POCSO Act – Responde nt filed Criminal

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on

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