Lalit Yadav vs The State of Chhattisgarh

Court

Supreme Court of India

Date

5 July 2018

Case No.

S.L.P (Criminal) No. 5631 of 2018

Result

Dismissed

Bench

Uday Umesh Lalit, Abhay Manohar Sapre

Citation

[2018] 10 S.C.R. 771 : 2018 INSC 585

Headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – s.228-A – Disclosure of identity of the victim of rape – In the instant case, the victim of rape (PW-2) was named throughout in the record – Such course is inconsistent with s.228-A though Explanation makes an exception in favour of judgments of superior court – Every attempt should be made by all the courts not to disclose the identity of the victim in terms of s.228-A – The Registry of the High Court is directed to place the record of the appeal in the High Court for causing appropriate changes in the record including passing appropriate practice directions so that the trial courts in the State comply with the mandate and spirit of s.228-A – Practice and Procedure. State of Punjab v. Ramdev Singh (2004) 1 SCC 421 – relied on.

The following Order of the Court was passed: ORDER Delay condoned. 1. The petitioner was convicted under Sections 376 IPC and Section 342 IPC and sentenced to substantive sentences of seven years and one year respectively. His conviction and sentence has been affirmed by the High Court by dismissing present appeal. We do not see any reason to upset the orders of conviction and sentence and as such this petition stands dismissed. 2. We, however, notice from the judgments of both, the trial court and the High Court that the victim in the present case who was examined as PW2 has been named al

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