The State Of Punjab vs Gurmit Singh & Ors on 16 January, 1996
It is distressing to note that the learned judge of the High Court did
not at all bestow any importance to the fact that victim of rape was not a
woman of easy virtues. There has been no suggestion made to her in a cross
examination or in defence plea of the accused in the course of his
examination under Section 313 of the Criminal procedure Code that the
prosecutrix had any grudge or reason to falsely implicate the two accused in
such a heinous crime in which she herself was ravished and her honour was
at stake. We consider it necessary to reiterate the following observations of
this court in State of Punjab vs. Gurmit Singh 1996 (2) SCC 384
containing the guidance given to the courts while appreciating evidence of
prosecutrix in cases of rape: