The Calcutta High Court, while allowing the appeal of a rape accused in Belal @ Radheshyam Mondal vs. The State of West Bengal, has held that mere error in mentioning the date of occurrence at the time of framing charge cannot vitiate the trial under Section 464 of CrPC and, thus, cannot be a ground to invalidate the trial. Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track, Malda, had convicted accused Belal for committing offence under Section 376 of IPC, sentencing him to suffer imprisonment of 10 years and to pay compensation of Rs.10,000 in default to suffer imprisonment for one year. In the trial court charge was framed against two accused (the other accused was acquitted by the court) for committing gang rape upon the victim girl. The father of the victim girl lodged the FIR at Baishnab nagar Police station informing that his 15-year-old daughter was returning home from the house of his next door neighbour Raj Kumar Mondal, when both the accused gagged her mouth by cloth and took her to the ...