Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 343, 366, 354, 34 -- Kidnapping and forcible marriage - Van in which kidnapping took place not recovered - Particulars of owner not mentioned - Van number different according to mahazar and prosecution evidence - Incident took place at the time and place where people frequently walk - If victim wanted to raise alarm it could have alerted..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354 -- Offence of outraging modesty of woman - Victim woman allegedly having illicit relations with relative of accused - Victim woman stripped and paraded naked - The statement of victim woman that she was assaulted by accused - Evidence of witnesses that victim woman was not in normal clothes on whose body some cloth was wrapped - Held,..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 320, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 452, 354, 323 -- Compounding of offence - Offence u/ss 452, 354 & 323 IPC - Parties compromised - No useful purpose would be served by continuation of criminal proceedings - FIR quashed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 451, 354, Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, Section 4 -- Outraging modesty of a woman - Conviction - Probation - At the time of occurrence accused was 18 years of age and complainant 60 years of age - Incident four years old - Parties belonged to same village - Accused a first offender - Offence though against accepted morals of our society..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354 -- Offence u/s 354 IPC - In order to constitute the offence u/s 354 IPC mere knowledge that the modesty of a woman is likely to be outraged is sufficient without any deliberate intention of having such outrage alone for its object - There is no abstract conception of modesty that can apply to all cases...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354 -- Essential ingredients to constitute offence u/s 354 IPC are : (i) that the person assaulted must be a woman; (ii) that the accused must have used criminal force on her; and (iii) that the criminal force must have been used on the woman intending thereby to outrage her modesty...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354 -- A victim of molestation and indignation is in the same position as an injured witness and her testimony should receive the same weight...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354, 452 -- Reduction in sentence - Conviction u/ss 354 & 452 IPC - Protracted trial of more than 12 years - Sentence reduced to already undergone i.e. 2 months and 12 days...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 511, 354 -- Attempt to rape - Allegation against the accused that he caught hold of prosecutrix, laid her on ground and then caught hold of her neck - No allegation of ejaculation of accused - No allegation that accused undressed himself and prosecutrix - Offence of attempt to rape not made out - However, accused convicted u/s 354 of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 354 -- Conviction by trial Court and upheld by High Court - Doctor found abrasions on the thighs and hip joints of accused, as the injuries must have been received in a scuffle - This circumstance found supported from the findings of chappals and other auricles - Held, that recovery of utensils and chappals of deceased does not lead to..........
