ARMAAN ALAM vs STATE NCT OF DELHI

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 21.07.2025 CRL.A. 319/2025 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 586/2025 ARMAAN ALAM .....Appellant Through: Ms. Sunita Arora, Advocate versus STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for the State with Ms. Piya Mann, Advocate. Ms. Sakshi Jayant, Advocate for Victim. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of the present appeal, the appellant seeks setting aside of the judgment dated 07.12.2024 and order on sentence dated 31.01.2025 [hereafter ‗impugned judgment and order‘], passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (FTSC)(POCSO)-02, West, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi [hereafter ‗Trial Court‘] in Sessions Case No. 111/2020, arising out of FIR No. 841/2019, registered at Police Station Nihal Vihar, Delhi for the commission of offence punishable under Section 10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [hereafter ‗POCSO Act‘]. CRL.A. 319/2025 2. Pithily put, the facts of the present case are that on 16.12.2019 at about 05:00 PM, the victim child, aged about 14 years, had gone to a nearby shop to buy eatables, when she had alleged