PRAMOR KUMAR JOSHI vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 28.02.2025 CRL.REV.P. 727/2024 PRAMOD KUMAR JOSHI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sarthak Mudgil, Ms. Bhairabi Das, Mr. Vedic Thukral and Mr. Aditya Sharma, Advocate versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for the State with Inspector Rajesh Meena, P.S. Palam Village CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J. 1. By way of this revision petition filed under Sections 397/401 read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [hereafter „Cr.P.C.‟], the petitioner seeks to assail the order dated 22.02.2024 [hereafter „the impugned order‟] passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (FTC), Dwarka Courts (South-West), Delhi [hereafter „learned ASJ‟] in CS No. 295/2018. 2. The present petition arises from an incident that had resulted in registration of FIR No. 17/2018 at Police Station Palam Village, Delhi, on 14.01.2018, for offences punishable under Section 302 of 1959. The case was registered on the complaint by Ms. Nishika, a 10-year-old girl, who had reported the brutal murder of her mother, Ms. Deepa (35 years), and her brother,