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Section 511 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
The Indian Penal Code, 1860
Rameshwar vs The State Of Rajasthan on 20 December, 1951
It is now time to tackle the pivotal issue as regards
the need for insisting on corroboration to the testimony of
the prosecutrix in sex-offences. This Court, in Rameshwar v.
The State of Rajasthan,(1) has declared that corroboration
is not the sine que-non for a conviction in a rape case. The
utterance of the Court in Rameshwar may be replayed, across
the time-gap of three decades which have whistled past, in
the inimitable voice of Vivian Bose, J. who spoke for the
Court
The rule, which according to the cases has
hardened into one of law, is not that
corroboration is essential before there can be a
conviction but that the necessity of
corroboration, as a matter of prudence, except
where the circumstances make it safe to dispense
with it, must be present to the mind of the judge
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Article 136 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
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