SUDAMA KUMAR vs STATE (NCT OF DELHI) & ANR.

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 03.07.2025 CRL.A. 89/2025 & CRL.M.B. 169/2025 SUDAMA KUMAR .....Appellant Through: Ms. Cauveri Birbal, Mr. Kamlendu Pandey and Ms. Preksha Gaur, Advocates versus STATE (NCT OF DELHI) & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Rajkumar, APP for the State with Ms. Sangeeta Dahiya, Advocate CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of this appeal, the appellant seeks setting aside of the judgment dated 07.02.2024 [hereafter „impugned judgment‟] and order on sentence dated 27.03.2024, passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (FTSC) (POCSO)-01, Dwarka Courts, South-West District, Delhi [hereafter „Trial Court‟] in SC No. 513/2018, arising out of FIR No. 597/2017, registered at Police Station Dabri, Delhi on 30.09.2017 for commission of offence punishable under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [hereafter „POCSO Act‟]. CRL.A. 89/2025 2. The case of the prosecution, shorn of unnecessary details, is that on 30.09.2017, a complaint was lodged at Police Station Dabri, Delhi by the complainant „S‟ (mother of victim child „R‟). It was