Supreme Court of India

Sushil Kumar Tiwari v. Hare Ram Sah & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 9 S.C.R. 258
Bench Sanjay Kumar and Satish Chandra Sharma JJ.
Decided 1 September 2025

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, we are of the considered view that the impugned judgment is liable to be set aside being unsustainable.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Allegation against the respondent nos.1 and 2 that they raped a minor girl. It is admitted that they never committed the acts together and always acted separately. In light of the controversy involved in the instant case, the two question arise for consideration: i) whether the High Court fell in a grave error in acquitting the respondent nos.1 and 2 by holding that the prosecution failed to discharge its evidentiary burden as the evidence led by the prosecution was full of inconsistencies and contradictions; ii) whether the High Court erred in its finding that the

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