MS AAA vs STATE AND ANR

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 05.05.2025 + CRL.M.C. 3253/2022 MS AAA .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Smriti Sinha and Mr. Harshit Pandey, Advs. versus STATE AND ANR .....Respondents Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for the State along with WSI Meenakshi. Mr. Shailendra Singh, Adv. for R-2. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of the present petition, the petitioner seeks setting aside of the impugned order dated 10.02.2022 [hereafter ‘impugned order’] passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, South, Saket Courts, Delhi [hereafter ‘Trial Court’] in Bail Application No. 182/2022, in FIR No. 41/2020, dated 16.01.2020, registered at Police Station Neb Sarai, Delhi, for the offence punishable under Sections 376/506/509 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter „IPC‟], vide which the accused Satender @ Aman i.e. respondent no. 2 herein had been granted regular bail. CRL.M.C. 3253/2022 Page 1 of 10 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:06.05.2025 18:55:11 2. Briefly stated, the facts of the case, as per prosecution, are that in March 2017, the prosecutrix was first approached by respondent no. 2 on the matrimonial website “simplymarry.com,” where she had created a profile with the bona fide intention of finding a suitable life partner. In April 2017, respondent no. 2 had again contacted her through the same platform, introducing himself as “Aman Saini,” an unmarried officer in the Indian Air Force. Believing his representations, the prosecutrix had begun interacting and meeting with him. On 27.04.2017, respondent no. 2 had allegedly made sexual advances towards the prosecutrix, which she had resisted. However, in May 2017, on the basis of false pro