Sunil and Another v. The Attorney General – sllr 1986 volume 1 page 230

In Sunil and Another (Accused-Appellants) v. The Attorney-General, the court considered charges of rape and abduction under sections 364 and 357 of the Penal Code. The principal legal issues included the sufficiency of uncorroborated testimony by a complainant in sexual offence cases, the necessity and standard for corroborative evidence, and the allocation of the burden of proving absence of consent. The accused-appellants were convicted by a jury after a trial involving detailed factual assessments. It was determined that while the prosecution always bears the burden to prove lack of consent, a jury is entitled to convict based solely on the complainant’s evidence if found credible, without mandatory corroboration. Established authorities such as Director of Public Prosecutions v. Hester