In Brief
The Supreme Court dismissed the State's appeal against the High Court's acquittal of two men accused of kidnapping and rape. The prosecutrix's account contained a material contradiction regarding the date rape allegedly occurred—she initially stated it happened on 31 March 2012 while in the co-accused's house, but later claimed it happened on 30 March 2012 in another location. The Court found that since the accused Sanjay Kumar was not with the prosecutrix on 31 March when she was at the co-accused's house, and the key witness present at the alleged rape location did not support the prosecution, the High Court's acquittal was based on a plausible view of the evidence and upheld the acquittal.
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