PRAMJEET@SANNI vs STATE NCT OF DELHI

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 07.02.2025 + CRL.A. 869/2024 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 1546/2024 PRAMJEET@SANNI ..... Appellant versus STATE NCT OF DELHI ..... Respondent Advocates who appeared in this case: For the Applicant : Mr. Manish Kumar, Adv. For the Respondent : Mr. Sunil Kumar Gautam, APP for the State. WSI Anita, 2nd Battalion. CORAM HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN JUDGMENT 1. The present appeal has been filed challenging the judgment dated 15.02.2024 (hereafter ‘the impugned judgment’) and the order on sentence dated 27.04.2024 (hereafter ‘the impugned order on sentence’), passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Special Court (POCSO), Dwarka Courts, New Delhi, in SC No. 26/2018, arising out of FIR No. 358/2017, registered at Police Station Uttam Nagar. Signature Not Verified Signed By:SHIKHA SEHGAL CRL.A. 869/2024 Page 1 of 16 Signing Date:08.02.2025 19:32:17 2. The learned Trial Court, by the impugned judgment convicted the appellant for the offence under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (‘POCSO Act’) and by the impugned order on sentence, the appellant was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for ten years along with a fine of ₹1,000. 3. The case of the prosecution is that on 17.06.2017, a complaint was lodged at PS Uttam Nagar by the grandmother of the minor victim (13 years old), alleging that the appellant/accused, a known person, had committed rape upon the minor victim in the absence of her guardian. The victim told the Investigating Officer that she had pain in her stomach. She further stated that the accused had repeatedly sexually assaulted her at her house, whenever her grandmother used to go to work. Consequently, the FIR in the present case was registered against the a