STATE vs MOHAN @ SONU

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Pronounced on: 28th June, 2025 CRL.APPEAL 537/2025 STATE Through DCP (East Delhi) .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Yudhvir Singh Chauhan, Ld. APP for the State with SI Aman P.S. Mandawali. versus MOHAN @ SONU S/o Sh Satya Parkash R/o House No. A-509, 3rd floor, Budha Marg, Mandawali, Delhi .....Respondent Through: Mr. Dhirendra Kumar and Mr. Bikash Bishwakarma, Advocates. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA J U D G M E N T NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA, J. 1. Criminal Appeal under Section 378 (1) Cr.P.C. has been filed by the Petitioner/State against judgment dated 28.03.2017 vide which the Respondent has been acquitted for offences under Section 354A IPC and Section 9 POCSO Act by learned ASJ, Delhi in FIR No.0109/2014, registered at PS: Mandawali. 2. Briefly stated, a hand-written Complaint dated 05.02.2014 had been made by Smt. K. K. (mother of prosecutrix) that on 03.02.2014, her daughter was alone in the house and watching T.V., while other family 3. The statement of the Prosecutrix was recorded under Section 164 Cr.P.C. before the learned M.M. After completion of investigations, Chargesheet was filed in the Court on 05.07.2014. 4. Ch