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Can a consensual long-term relationship be retrospectively treated as rape after it ends?
Santhosh Kumar N.P. vs State-Station House Officer, Kadirur Police, Tellicherry, Kannur District & Another
The Supreme Court discharged the accused from charges of rape and related IPC offences, holding that a consensual long-term relationship that turned sour cannot be retrospectively converted into a criminal offence.
Can a mother's sole eyewitness testimony sustain a death sentence in a child rape-murder case?
Waris vs The State of Madhya Pradesh
The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of a stepfather convicted of raping and throttling to death his six-year-old stepdaughter, finding the mother's eyewitness testimony reliable and corroborated by medical and objective evidence.
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