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SC: Failure to Send Seized Clothes to Forensics Insignificant Once Court Believes Survivor's Story - (25 Nov 2022)

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Supreme Court has held that once court believes statement of a survivor of sexual assault, it is sufficient to establish an offence punishable under Section 376 of IPC and failure of police to send seized articles to forensic science laboratory would not affect the outcome in such a case.

Tags : SUPREME COURT   SEXUAL ASSAULT   FORENSIC LABORATORY  

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