PAWAN KUMAR PASWAN vs STATE (NCT OF DELHI)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on:03.07.2025 CRL.A. 1004/2023 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 1688/2023 PAWAN KUMAR PASWAN .....Appellant versus STATE (NCT OF DELHI) .....Respondent Advocates who appeared in this case: For the Appellant : Ms. Jahanvi Worah, Adv. For the Respondent : Mr. Ajay Vikram Singh, APP for the State. SI Dharmendra Sharma, PS Patel Nagar, WSI Kiran Sethi, IO, PS Kamla Market along with victim. Ms. Deepika Dahiya, Amicus Curie for victim. CORAM HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN JUDGMENT 1. The present appeal is filed challenging the judgement of conviction dated 27.05.2023 (hereafter ‘impugned judgement’) and order on sentence dated 11.07.2023 (hereafter ‘impugned order on sentence’) passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (‘ASJ’), (POCSO), Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi, in Sessions Case No. 57755/2016 2. The learned ASJ by the impugned judgement, convicted the appellant for the offences under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (‘POCSO’) and Section 323/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’). 3. By the impugned order on sentence the appellant was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of tw