Supreme Court of India
Hemudan Nanbha Gadhvi v. State of Gujarat
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We are of the opinion that no prejudice can be said to have been caused to the appellant for that reason, as held in Nar Singh vs.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.376(2)(f) – Sexual assault on minor – Accused-appellant was identified by prosecutrix in test identification parade – However, six months later, while deposing during trial, the prosecutrix and the other minor eye-witness denied the sexual assault and also declined dock identification – Acquittal by trial court – High Court reversed the order of acquittal holding that the sexual assault on the prosecutrix was established by medical report and that the appellant had won over the prosecutrix by sheer passage of time and the consequent delay in trial but that it could not…
Authorities it was built on
- 2006 Zahira Habibullah Sheikh and Anr. v. State of Gujarat and Ors.
- 2003 Visveswaran v. State Rep. by S.D.M.
- 2012 State Tr. P.S. Lodhi Colony, New Delhi v. Sanjeev Nanda
- 2014 Nar Singh v. State of Haryana
- 2015 Iqbal and Another v. State of Utiar Pradesh
- 2016 Shelkh Sintha Madhar @ Jaffer @ Sintha Etc v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police
- 2008 Mahila Vinod Kumari v. State of Madhya Pradesh
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