Summarize the following court judgment. : Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No. 950 of 1980. From the Judgment and order dated 21 9 1979 of the Allahabad High Court in Crl. A. No. 2305/74. U. section Prasad for the Petitioner. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by	 KRlSHNA IYER	 J. This special Leave Petition relates to a conviction and sentence for an offence of rape. The escalation of such crimes has reached proportions to a degree that exposes the pretensions of the nation 's spiritual leadership and celluloid censorship	 puts to shame our ancient cultural heritage and humane claims and betrays a vulgar masculine outrage on human rights of which woman 's personal dignity is a sacred component. We refuse special leave and briefly state a few reasons for doing so. Draupadi	 a middle aged Bal Sewika in a village welfare organization ' was sleeping in a girls ' school where she was allegedly raped by Rafiq	 the petitioner	 and three others. The offence took place around 2.30 a.m. On August 22/23	 1971	 and the next morning the victim related the incident to the Mukhiya Sewika of the village. A report was made to the Police Station on August 23. 1971 at mid day. The investigation that followed resulted in a charge sheet	 a trial and	 eventually	 in a conviction based substantially on the testimony of the victim. Although some of the witnesses. tell tale fashion. shifted their loyalties and betrayed the prosecution case	 the trial court ' entered a finding of guilt against the appellant	 giving the benefit of doubt to the other three obscurely. A 7 year sentence of rigorous imprisonment was awarded as justly merited. having regard to the circumstances. The appeal carried to the High Court proved unsuccessful but	 undaunted	 he petitioner has sought leave to appeal to this Court. Concurrent findings of fact ordinarily acquire a deterrent sanctity and tentative finality when challenged in this Court and we rarely invoke the special jurisdiction under article 136 of the Constitution which is meant mainly to correct manifest injustice or errors of law of great moment. By these substantial canons the present petition for leave has not even a dog 's chance. 404 Counsel contended that there was absence of corroboration of the testimony of the prosecutrix	 that there was absence of injuries on the person of the woman and so the conviction was unsustainable	 tested on the touchstone of case law. None of these submissions has any substance and we should	 in the ordinary course	 have desisted from making even a speaking order but counsel cited a decision of this Court in Pratap Misra & Ors. vs State of Orissa and urged that absence cf injuries on the person of the victim was fatal to the prosecution and that corroborative evidence was an imperative component of judicial credence in rape cases. We do not agree. For one thing	 Pratap Misra 's case (supra) laid down no inflexible axiom of law on either point. The facts and circumstances often vary from case to case. the crime situation and the myriad psychic factors	 social conditions and people 's life styles may fluctuate	 and so	 rules of prudence relevant in one fact situation may be inept in another. We cannot accept the argument that regardless of the specific circumstances of a crime and criminal milieu	 some strands of probative reasoning which appealed to a Bench in one reported decision must mechanically be extended to other cases. Corroboration as a condition for judicial reliance on the testimony cf a prosecutrix is not a matter of law	 but a guidance of prudence under given circumstances. Indeed	 from place to place	 from age to age. from varying life styles and behavioural complexes	 inferences from a given set of facts	 oral and circumstantial	 may have to be drawn not with dead uniformity but realistic diversity lest rigidity in the shape of rule of law in this area be introduced through a new type of precedential tyranny. The same observation holds good regarding the presence or absence of injuries on the person of the aggressor or the aggressed. There are several "sacred cows" of the criminal law in Indo Anglian jurisprudence which are superstitious survivals and need to be re examined. When rapists are revelling in their promiscuous pursuits and half of humankind womankind is protesting against its hapless lot	 when no woman of honour will accuse another of rape since she sacrifices thereby what is dearest to her	 we cannot cling to a fossil formula and insist on corroborative testimony	 even if taken as a whole	 the case spoken to by the victim strikes a judicial mind as probable. In this case	 the testimony has commanded acceptance from two courts. When a woman is ravished what is inflicted is not merely physical injury. but 'the deep sense of some deathless shame". 405 "A rape! a rape!. . . . Yes	 you have ravish 'd justice; Forced her to do your pleasure. Hardly a sensitized judge who sees the conspectus of circumstances in its totality and rejects the testimony of a rape victim unless there are very strong circumstances militating against is veracity. None we see in his case	 and confirmation of the conviction by the courts below must	 therefore	 be a matter of course. Judicial response to human rights cannot be blunted by legal bigotry. The case before us occurred in 1971 and is drawing to a close in 1980. What a pity ! Now that there is considerable public and parliamentary attention to the violent frequency of rape cases it is time that the court reminds the nation that deterrence comes more effectively from quick investigations	 prompt prosecutions and urgent finality	 including special rules of evidence and specialised agencies for trial. Mechanical increase of punitive severity	 without more	 may yield poor dividends for women victims. In Dr. Johnson 's time public hanging for pick pocketing was prevalent in England but as Dr. Johnson sardonically noted pick pockets were busy plying their trade among crowds gathered to see some pick pocket being publicly executed. Dr. Johnson 's wit is our wisdom. The strategy for a crime free society is not draconian severity in sentence but institutional sensitivity	 processual celerity and prompt publicity among the concerned community. "Lawlessness is abetted by a laggard	 long lived	 lacunose and legalistic litigative syndrome rather than by less harsh provisions in the Penal Code". The focus must be on the evil	 not its neighbourhood. Counsel submitted that a 7 year sentence was too severe. No	 because	 as we have stated earlier	 rape for a woman is deathless shame and must be dealt with as the gravest crime against human dignity. No interference on the score of culpability or quantum of punishment is called for in the circumstances. We refuse special leave. N.V.K. Petition dismissed.

Indian Penal Code 1860	 section 376 Evidence and proof Absence of injuries on prosecution Whether fatal to the prosecution Testimony of prosecutrix Corroboration whether necessary. The petitioner was convicted on the charge of committing rape on a middle aged Bal Sewika in a village welfare organisation who was sleeping a girls school. The trial Court imposed a sentence of 7 years ' rigorous imprisonment. The High Court	 confirmed the conviction and sentence. In the Special Leave Petition to this Court it was contended on behalf of the petitioner relying on the decision of this Court in Pratap Mishra & Ors. vs State of Orissa	 A.I.R. 1977 S.C. 1307 that absence of injuries on the person of the victim was fatal tb the prosecution and that corroborating evidence was an imperative component of judicial credence in rape cases. It was also submitted that the sentence of 7 years was too severe. Dismissing the petition; ^ HELD: 1. No interference on the score of culpability or quantum of punishment is called for. 1405 2. Concurrent findings of fact ordinarily acquire a deterrent sanctity and tentative finality when challenged in this Court. The special jurisdiction under Article 136 of the Constitution which is meant mainly to correct manifest injustice or errors of law of great moment cannot be invoked in the instant case. [403 H] 3.(i) The facts and circumstances often vary from case to case	 the crime situation and the myriad psychic factors	 social conditions and people 's life styles may fluctuate	 and so	 rules of prudence relevant in one fact situation may be inept in another. The argument that regardless of the specific circumstances of a crime and criminal milieu	 some strands of probative reasoning which appealed to a Bench in one reported decision must mechanically be extended to other cases cannot be accepted. [404 D] (ii) Pratap Misra 's case laid down no inflexible axiom of law on either point. [404 C] 4. Corroboration as a condition for judicial reliance on the testimony of a prosecutrix is not a matter of law	 but a guidance of prudence under given circumstances. [404 E] 403 In the instant case the testimony of the prosecutrix has commanded acceptance from two courts. A sensitized judge who sees the conspectus of circumstances in its totality hardly rejects the testimony of a rape victim unless there are very strong circumstances militating against its veracity. There is none in this case. The confirmation of the conviction by the Courts below must therefore	 be a matter of course. [404H	 405B]