Section 375,376 IPC

Jayantibhai Chaturbhai Patel v. State of Gujarat; 2025 INSC 1443 - Rape Victim Turned Hostile

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Samadhan Sitatram Manmothe v. State of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 1351 - Rape Cases -Promise Of Marriage

Read Judgment In LawLens Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 -Physical intimacy that occurred during the course of a functioning relationship cannot be retrospectively branded as instances of offence of rape merely because the relationship failed to culminate in marriage -Failed or broken relationships are given the colour of

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Kunal Chatterjee vs State Of West Bengal - IPC - Rape - Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375,376 - Promise to marriage and the subsequent physical relationship between the two with consent would not amount to rape. [SC allowed appeal filed by accused and quashed a rape case and observed: Under the present facts and circumstances of the case and

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Birka Shiva vs State Of Telangana 2025 INSC 863 - S.35 Evidence Act - Entry Made In Official Register - S.375 IPC - Rape

Birka Shiva vs State Of Telangana 2025 INSC 863 - S.35 Evidence Act - Entry Made In Official Register - S.375 IPC - RapeBirka Shiva vs State Of Telangana 2025 INSC 863 - S.35 Evidence Act - Entry Made In Official Register - S.375 IPC -

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Madhukar vs State Of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 819 - Rape Case FIR Quashed

Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482; Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - Offence under Section 376 IPC is undoubtedly of a grave and heinous nature. Ordinarily, quashing of proceedings involving such offences on the ground of settlement between the parties is discouraged and should not be

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Ravish Singh Rana vs State Of Uttarakhand 2025 INSC 635 - Rape - Long Drawn Live-in Relationships

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375-376 - [BNS - Section 63-64] - If two able-minded adults reside together as a live-in couple for more than a couple of years and cohabit with each other, a presumption would arise that they voluntarily chose that kind of a relationship fully aware

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Keshav vs State Of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 604 - Rape Case Acquittal

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - If the evidence of the prosecutrix inspires confidence, it can be relied on and can also be the sole ground for conviction. However, if it is difficult to place implicit reliance on the testimony of the prosecutrix, then the Court has to

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State Of Himachal Pradesh vs Sanjay Kumar 2025 INSC 561 - Rape Case - Acquittal

Summary: SC upheld acquittal of accused in rape case and observed: there is material contradiction in the statement of the Prosecutrix as to the date of commission of rape. 2025 INSC 561 State Of Himachal Pradesh vs Sanjay Kumar - Rape Case - Acquittal2025 INSC 561 State Of Himachal Pradesh

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Jaspal Singh Kaural vs State Of NCT Of Delhi 2025 INSC 457 - Rape - Promise To Marry - Framing Of Charges

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375 - Mere fact that physical relations were established pursuant to a promise to marry will not amount to a rape in every case. An offence under Section 375 IPC could only be made out, if promise of marriage was made by the accused

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Biswajyoti Chatterjee vs State Of West Bengal 2025 INSC 458 - Rape - Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - There is a growing tendency of resorting to initiation of criminal proceedings when relationships turn sour. Every consensual relationship, where a possibility of marriage may exist, cannot be given a colour of a false pretext to marry, in the event of a

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Karandeep Sharma @ Razia @ Raju vs State Of Uttarakhand 2025 INSC 444 - POCSO-Rape Cases - DNA Profiling - Non Examination Of Scientific Expert

Criminal Trial - POCSO/Rape Cases - Non-examination of the scientific expert who carried out the DNA profiling is fatal, and the DNA report cannot be admitted in evidence -DNA profiling reports cannot be admitted in evidence ipso facto by virtue of Section 293 CrPC and it is necessary for

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Raju @ Nirpendra Singh vs State Of Madhya Pradesh 2025 INSC 392 - Gang Rape Conviction Upheld

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - Once the age of the prosecutrix at the time of the incident is established to be that of minority, the question of consent per se becomes irrelevant and the act shall qualify as statutory rape nevertheless- Subjection to sexual intercourse under fear

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Jothiragawan vs State 2025 INSC 386 - Rape On Promise To Marry - Quashing

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - Rape case quashed - SC observed: There is no promise of marriage to coerce consent from the victim for sexual intercourse; as forthcoming from the statements made by the victim. The promise if any was after the first physical intercourse and even

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State Of Rajasthan vs Chatra 2025 INSC 360 - Rape Cases - Silence Of Prosecutrix

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375 - If the prosecutrix is unable to testify, or for some justifiable reason remains unexamined, the possibility of conviction is automatically excluded - The testimony of the prosecutrix is present and forms an essential part of the conviction of an accused, but at

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Lok Mal @ Loku vs State Of Uttar Pradesh 2025 INSC 344 - S.376 IPC - Rape - Absence Of Injuries On Victim

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 -Absence of injuries on the private parts of the victim is not always fatal to the case of the prosecution - Merely because in the medical evidence, there are no major injury marks, this cannot a be a reason to discard the otherwise

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State Of Himachal Pradesh vs Rajesh Kumar @ Munnu 2025 INSC 331 - Rape Cases - Non-Allowance Of Medical Examination By Rape-Victim

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - Non- allowance of medical examination by an alleged rape- victim raises negative inferences against them. (Para 10) 2025 INSC 331 State Of Himachal Pradesh vs Rajesh Kumar @ Munnu - Rape Cases - Non-Allowance Of Medical Examination By Rape-Victim2025 INSC 331 State Of

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Rajnish Singh @ Soni vs State Of U.P. 2025 INSC 308 - Rape On Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375- The accused is not liable for the offence of rape if the victim has wilfully agreed to maintain sexual relations (Para 35)- In a situation where the woman knowingly maintains the physical relationship for a prolonged period, it cannot be said with

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Manish Yadav Vs State Of Uttar Pradesh 2025 INSC 151 - S 375 IPC - Rape on Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375 - Where a consensual physical relationship between two adults has turned sour due to certain intervening events, allowing the prosecution of accused would tantamount to sheer abuse of the process of law and nothing else.[Supreme Court quashed rape case against accused] -

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Prithivirajan vs State - S 376 IPC - Rape - Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375,376 - Only because physical relations were established based on a promise to marry, it will not amount to rape. For the offence of rape to be attracted, the following conditions need to be satisfied: first, the accused promised to marry the prosecutrix