SUNIL vs STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR.

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on : 11.11.2025 Pronounced on : 17.12.2025 Uploaded on : 17.12.2025 + CRL.A. 1187/2024 SUNIL .....Appellant Through: Mr. Abinash Kumar Mishra, Advocate. versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Shubhi Gupta, APP for State. Mr. Arman Roop Sharma, Mr. Aman Khan, and Mr. Lekhraj, Advocates for Victim. Mr. Manish Sangwan, Ms. Tanya Gupta, and Mr. Vedant Srivastava, Advocates for DSLSA. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ KUMAR OHRI JUDGMENT 1. Vide the present appeal, the appellant seeks setting aside of the judgment of conviction dated 13.11.2024 and the order on sentence dated 30.11.2024 rendered in the contest of trial held in Sessions Case No.110/2017 arising out of FIR No. 816/2016 registered at P.S. Nand Nagri. The Trial Court convicted the appellant for the offences punishable under Section 354 IPC and Section 8 POCSO. He was subsequently directed to undergo RI for a period of 3 years and 1 month along with paying a fine of Rs.2,000/-, in default whereof he would undergo 1 month SI, for the offence Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:NIJAMUDDEEN ANSARI Signing Date:17.12.2025 19:20:59 CRL.A. 1187/2024 Page 1 of 7 under Section 8 POCSO; and to undergo RI for a period of 1 year along with paying a fine of Rs.2,000/-, in default whereof he would undergo 1 month SI, for the offence under Section 354 IPC. Both sentences were directed to run concurrently and the benefit under Section 428 Cr.P.C. was granted to the appellant. 2. The facts as culled out from the Trial Court record are that the investigation was set into motion on 17.09.2016 when the complainant (father of the 10-year-old child victim) gave a written complaint that his minor daughter was molested by the appellant herein.