STATE OF NCT OF DELHI vs NAVEEN KUMAR GOYAL

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 14.08.2025 CRL.A. 115/2016 STATE OF NCT OF DELHI .....Appellant Through: Mr. Pradeep Gahalot, APP for State versus NAVEEN KUMAR GOYAL .....Respondent Through: Respondent through VC. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ KUMAR OHRI JUDGMENT (ORAL) 1. By way of the present appeal, the State has assailed the judgment dated 15.01.2015 and the order on sentence of even date passed by the learned ASJ (Special Fast Track Court), Dwarka Courts, New Delhi in SC No. 174/2013, arising out of FIR No. 110/2013, registered under Sections 376/500/506 IPC at P.S. Najafgarh, Delhi. Vide the impugned judgment, the respondent was acquitted of all charges. 2. The case of the prosecution, briefly put, is that the respondent (brother-in-law of the prosecutrix), allegedly committed rape upon her for the first time in 1992 when she was about 13–14 years old, and thereafter repeatedly over a prolonged period. The allegations further include threats extended by the respondent and his wife. The prosecutrix was thereafter married to Mr. Jai Prakash Goyal on 07.11.2000. According to her, the respondent continued to exploit her sexually even after marriage,