MS XXX vs STATE AND ANR & ANR.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 05.05.2025 + CRL.M.C. 2841/2022 & CRL.M.A. 1480/2025 MS XXX .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Smriti Sinha and Ms. Sara Shrawani Advocates versus STATE AND ANR & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for the State with SI Clara Toppo, P.S. Tilak Marg. Mr. Pinaki Addy, Ms. Priyanka Arora, Ms. Neetu Singh and Ms. Niraj Kumari, Advocates CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The petitioner has approached this Court by way of this petition, seeking setting aside of the order dated 04.04.2022 [hereafter ‗impugned order‘] passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala House Court [hereafter ‗Sessions Court‘], in case arising out of FIR No. 101/2020, dated 28.11.2020, registered at Police Station Tilak Marg, Delhi, for the offences punishable under Sections 376/328/354/354A/354D/506/495 of the Indian Penal Code, CRL.M.C. 2841/2022 Page 1 of 23 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:08.05.2025 19:06:34 1860 [hereafter ‗IPC‘]. 2. The case arises in the following factual context. The petitioner, who is the victim/prosecutrix in this case, had lodged the complaint in question on 24.11.2020, wherein she had disclosed that she had met the accused (respondent no. 2 herein) via Facebook in 2013, who had introduced himself as an IAS officer, who used to help students in studies and that he was associated with many coaching institutes. Thereafter, the accused had started sending her vulgar messages and photographs along with the study material. Despite her objections to the vulgar content he shared, the accused continued to contact the prosecutrix through different numbers between 2013-2018. The prosecutrix all