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Bhupinder Sharma vs State Of Himachal Pradesh on 16 October, 2003
To insist on corroboration,
except in the rarest of rare cases, is to equate one who is a victim of the lust of
another with an accomplice to a crime and thereby insult womanhood. It would
be adding insult to injury to tell a woman that her claim of rape will not be
believed unless it is corroborated in material particulars, as in the case of an
accomplice to a crime. Why should the evidence of the girl or the woman who
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complains of rape or sexual molestation be viewed with the aid of spectacles
fitted with lenses tinged with doubt, disbelief or suspicion? The plea about lack
of corroboration has no substance {See Bhupinder Sharma v. State of Himachal
Pradesh(2003)8SCC 551). Notwithstanding this legal position, in the instant
case, we even find enough corroborative material as well, which is discussed
hereinabove.”(Emphasis supplied)….”