Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(i), Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 3, 4 -- Rape - Victim has not supported prosecution case and has exonerated accused in her examination - Material exhibit sent to Forensic Lab for examination did not find anything incriminating in them - Merely by I.O. stating that accused was brought at police..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(i), Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 3, 4 -- Rape - Accused convicted under both the provisions i.e IPC and POCSO Act - However, trial Court has not considered the fact that S.42 of POCSO Act states that offender if found guilty of such offence shall be liable to punishment only under POCSO Act or under..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Rape - Quashing of proceedings - Prosecutrix maintained sexual relationship with petitioner for 4 years before death of her husband, for 4 years after death of her husband and even after knowing about marriage of petitioner with another lady - Relationship between petitioner and prosecutrix..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - Subsequent conduct of prosecutrix maintaining relationship with accused for 4 years after death of her husband, reveals that sexual relationship between them cannot be classified as rape...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 90 -- Rape - Consent given under misconception of fact - Consent given by prosecutrix to sexual intercourse with person with whom she was deeply in love, on promise that he would marry her on later date, cannot be said to given under misconception of fact...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 90 -- Rape - Promise to marry - Promise to marry, without anything more, will not give rise to misconception of fact u/s 90 IPC - However, position will change if it is shown that accused, with view to elicit assent of victim, gave false promise of marriage without having intention or inclination to marry her, made victim submit..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - Absence of consent cannot be presumed in every case where prosecutrix alleges that she indulged in sexual intercourse with offender believing offer of marriage made by him...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - False promise of marriage - Offence of rape can be proved by establishing that, from very beginning accused had no intention at all to marry prosecutrix and that offer of marriage was made as ploy to make her surrender to him in order to satiate his canal desire...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - Long co-habitation of accused and victim over a period of more than 8 years itself shows that their relationship partook character of consensual sex and that accused and victim had been behaving with each other like husband and wife - Fact that accused went in search of greener pasture for giving vent to his promiscuous sexual..........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Writ of Habeas corpus - Unlawful detention - Detenue being a minor and victim of kidnapping and rape case now aged 15 years 7 months and 13 days, is in protection home - She cannot be set at liberty forthwith as the petitioners seek - Detenue has clearly expressed her mind that she does not wish to go back to her parents and also..........
