Shiv Kumar And Ors. vs State Of Rajasthan on 7 April, 1993
9. The contention of the learned Addl. PP that conviction can be based on the statement of the prosecutrix herself whether corroborated or not is no doubt based on the legal proposition with which there cannot be any quarrel but in the facts and circumstances of the present case, having gone through the totality of the facts and circumstances, as has been held by the Supreme Court in the case of Rafiq v. State of U.P. (supra), and having gone through the statement of the prosecutrix Prabho wherein Probho herself admits the factum of holding a Panchayat and the factum of the imposition of fine on her side and even says that she did not know as to what about the fine had been imposed on the side of her and father-in-law; the fact that she even did not disclose this incident of her being taken away to the school while she had gone for attending the call of the nature, to her husband and her statement that she had also informed police people that her Jantar had been taken away and yet the same was not mentioned by the police and her own statement that in the village, a Panchayat was held before filing the report in the police and this Panchayat was held on the very day when her father-in-law and husband came from Delhi; and her statement in the earlier part of the cross-examination that her mother-in-law's name is Dhapa and not Manni, go to raise a suspicion and lurking doubt about the correctness of the prosecution story.