2025:BHC-NAG:90 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 184 OF 202 3 APPELLANT Shankar s/o Babulal Yadav, Aged about 28 years, Occu: Labour, R/o Railway Station Area, Ballarpur, Tah. Ballarpur District Chandrapur.

-VERSUS-

RESPONDENTS 1] State of Maharashtra through, Police Station Officer, Police Station Ballarpur, District Chandrapur.

2] XYZ (VICTIM) in Crime No. 411/19 Registered at Police Station Ballarpur.

District Chandrapur.

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Mr. D.A. Sonwane, counsel (appointed) for appellant.

Mrs S.S. Dhote, APP for respondent/State.

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CORAM : URMILA JOSHI-PHALKE, J.

DATE OF RESERVE : 20 /0 3 /2025 DATE OF DECISION : 02/ 04/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT :

1. By this appeal, the appellant has challenged the judgment and order of the sentence passed in Special Case No. 122/2019, whereby the appellant/accused is convicted for the offence punishable under Section 376(1) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a period of 10 years and to pay a fine of