STATE NCT OF DELHI vs MANISH KUMAR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 28.01.2025 CRL.L.P. 273/2022 & CRL.M.A. 11299/2022 STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Petitioner Through: Mr Yudhvir Singh Chauhan, APP for State SI Rekha Chauhan, PS-Pandav Nagar versus MANISH KUMAR .....Respondent Through: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASMEET SINGH : JASMEET SINGH, J (ORAL) 1. This is a petition seeking leave to appeal challenging the impugned judgment dated 20.01.2020 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court), Karkardooma Courts, Delhi in SC No. 967/2016 arising out of FIR No. 442/2014 registered at PS Pandav Nagar, East, North East and Shahdara Districts, Delhi wherein the respondent was acquitted under Sections 376 and 506 of IPC. 2. The complainant/prosecutrix and the respondent have known each other since 2011, having worked together for over 3½ years. Initially, they developed a good friendship. The respondent presented himself as a trustworthy individual, thereby gaining her confidence. 3. During their relationship, the prosecutrix discovered that the respondent lived with a woman named Sangeeta, also known as Sanju, whom he portrayed as his sister, the respondent told the prosecutrix th