SATISH vs STATE NCT OF DELHI AND ANR

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 21.07.2025 CRL.A. 371/2025 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 648/2025 SATISH .....Appellant Through: Mr. Aditya Aggarwal, Ms. Pooja Roy and Ms. Shivani Sharma, Advocates versus STATE NCT OF DELHI AND ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Rajkumar, APP for the State. 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 30.05.2024 [hereafter „impugned judgment‟] and order on sentence dated 16.01.2025 [hereafter „impugned order on sentence‟], passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (FTSC) (POCSO)-03, South-West District, Dwarka Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Trial Court‟] in Sessions Case No. 540/17, arising out of FIR bearing no. 233/2017, registered on 10.08.2017 at Police Station Najafgarh, Delhi for the commission of offence punishable under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter „IPC‟] and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, CRL.A. 371/2025 2. Briefly stated, the facts of the present case are that on 10.08.2017, child victim „S‟ had written a letter to her school tea