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..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 354 -- FIR - Delay - Delay in a case of sexual assault, cannot be equated with the case involving other offences...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354, 376, 506 -- Rape - Case of rape not established so far as respondent is concerned - Respondent convicted only u/ss 354 & 506 IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354 -- Essential ingredients of the 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 -- Outraging modesty of a woman - Intention is not the sole criterion - Offence can be committed by a person assaulting or using criminal force to any woman, if he knows that by such act the modesty of the woman is likely to be affected - Knowledge and intention are essentially things of the mind and cannot be demonstrated like physical..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 354 -- Rape or outraging modesty of a woman - Prosecutrix a married lady - Prosecutrix not stating specifically about the act - Prosecutrix loosely described as 'fondling' - Offence of outraging modesty is made out and not of rape...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 366, 354 -- Murder - Death sentence - Pre planned cold blooded murder - Murder committed in such a manner that it did not cause any mental and physical pain to victim - Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment...........
