Committee did not consider death to be an appropriate sentence, in cases of
rape. He relied on paras 24 and 25 of the Verma Committee ... crimes appearing in para 372, there is a manifold rise in rape cases as
against the offence of murder. He submitted that the Apex Court
there was no rape
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incident, whereas the Committee reported that there were 11 rape
cases. In fact ... Legal Reports. In
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number of rape cases immediate medical examination was not got
done. All have connived to destroy
victim of the
rape. However, corroboration is not the sine que non for a
conviction in a rape case. In the Indian setting, refusal ... material aspects of the prosecution case."
In cases of rape, generally it is difficult to find any
corroborative witnesses except the victim
applicant No. 2 is charged for committing the rape on three girls. The allegations being of rape committed on all three prosecutrix, the acts form ... contentions. There is no medical evidence to support the case of three prosecutrix regarding the rape. Secondly, none of the prosecutrix made any complaint against
rape nor it can be construed as evidence of rape. Besides, I am conscious of the fact that in a matter of rape the statement ... that the prosecution has to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, applies equally to a case of rape and there can be no presumption that
there are 4 to 5 cases of rape happened in the village Antri and only 2 rape cases were sent to the Court ... said village clearly makes out a case that in the cases of that village on allegations of rape, the evidence of prosecutrix cannot be treated
have got such a status from 'Bub'. R-1
committed rape on her thrice in the same manner. One
day she, Rutba ... been
raped two/three times. R-1 then called them in his room
one by one and threatened them that in case they disclose
open trial which, is caveated with a
directive that, in a case involving rape, trial "shall" be held in camera.
Simultaneously, it confers ... which provides for an
in camera trial in a rape case, envisage access? If so, in what
manner?
(iii) What are the factors
committed rape on her and A2 showing the knife committed rape on her and
A3 facilitated A1 and A2 to commit rape. Hence, the Respondent ... corroboration is not a sine qua non for conviction in a rape
case. If the evidence of the victim does not suffer from any basic
victim, as well as, importance of corroborative evidence in
rape cases, in his celebrated judgment in Rafiq v. State of Uttar Pradesh
reported ... injuries found
on the person of the prosecutrix, in a case of rape, would result in a finding of
acquittal, is well settled. Dealing with
