In a significant verdict on criminal jurisprudence, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Atul S. Chandurkar acquitted an accused convicted of rape under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), holding that the prosecution’s testimony cannot be selectively accepted to prove rape after being rejected to acquit the accused of
Prosecutrix’s Testimony Cannot Be Partially Accepted And Partially Rejected: Supreme Court Acquits Rape Accused, Rules Immorality Sans Clinching Evidence Cannot Sustain Conviction
