Ranjit Hazarika vs. State of Assam, (1998) 8 SCC 635 (India)

The victim, a girl of 14 years old, was on her way home from watching a performance, when the accused offered to walk her home but raped her by the roadside on their way. After the rape, the girl rushed home and told her parents. The defense argues that no rape was committed as no injury was found on the private parts of the victim and her hymen was found to be intact. The court said that neither the non-rupture of the hymen nor the absence of injuries on her private parts belies the testimony of the prosecutrix particularly since the court found that in the cross-examination of the prosecutrix, nothing has been brought out to doubt her veracity or to suggest as to why she would falsely implicate the appellant and put her own reputation at stake. Moreover, corroborative evidence is not an imperative component of judicial credence in every case of rape.