STATE (GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI) vs GAURANG KADYAN

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 12.08.2025 CRL.REV.P. 556/2017 STATE (GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI) .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Richa Dhawan, Advocate alongwith IO, P.S. Bindapur. versus GAURANG KADYAN .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sobhik Tanwar, Advocate. CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of the present petition, the State impugns the order dated 05.12.2016 [hereafter „impugned order‟], passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (SFTC), Dwarka Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Sessions Court‟] in case arising out of FIR bearing no. 297/2016, registered at Police Station Bindapur, Delhi, for the offence punishable under Sections 376/328/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter „IPC‟]. 2. The brief facts of the present case are that the prosecutrix had allegedly come in contact with the respondent/accused through Facebook and thereafter, they had met for the first time on 20.08.2013 at Select City Walk, Saket, Delhi. After four meetings, the respondent had allegedly proposed marriage to her. On CRL.REV.P. 556/2017 3. During the course of investigation, the prosecutrix had been medically exam