Supreme Court of India
State of Rajasthan v. Chatra
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the testimony of a prosecutrix with a disability, or of a disabled witness for that matter, cannot be considered weak or inferior, only because such an individual interacts with the world in a different manner, vis-à-vis their able-bodied counterparts.
Judgment, page 22
From the headnote
Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court erred in reversing the conviction of the respondent-accused under Section 376, Penal Code, 1860 for the rape of a minor girl and acquitting him. Headnotes† Penal Code, 1860 – s.376 – Evidence of a child witness-victim – Appreciation of – Rape of minor girl – High Court reversed the conviction of the respondent-accused inter alia holding that the victim-child witness was indifferent/silent about the incident which was unlikely if the incident would have been true, and acquitted him – Challenge to: Held: There is no hard and fast rule qua testing
Authorities it was built on
- 1973 Shivaji Sahebrao Bobade & Anr v. State of Maharashtra
- 1994 Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab
- 1998 Panchhi and Ors. Etc. v. State of U.P.
- 2003 Bhupinder Sharma v. State of Himachal Pradesh
- 2011 State of M.P. v. Ramesh and Anr.
- 2003 State of Karnataka v. Puttaraja
- 2003 Ramakant Rai v. Madan Rai and Ors.
- 2018 Nipun Saxena & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2006 Dinesh @ Buddha v. State of Rajasthan
- 1978 K. Gopal Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- 2000 State of U.P. v. Ashok Dixit and Anr.
- 2001 Suryanarayana v. State of Karnataka
- 2002 State of Rajasthan v. Om Prakash
- 2021 Patan Jamal Vali v. The State of Andhra Pradesh
- 2015 Sanjeev Kumar Gupta v. State of U.P. (now State of Utiarakhand)
- 2025 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Balveer Singh
- 2018 Hemudan Nanbha Gadhvi v. State of Gujarat
- 2022 Geeta Devi v. State of U.P. & Ors.
- 2021 Hari Om @ Hero v. State of U.P.
- 2016 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Sanjay Kumar @ Sunny
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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