PC vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR.

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 13.05.2025 CRL.M.C. 1375/2025 PC .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Jyoti Nambiar & Mr. Kunal Narwal, Advs. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Rajkumar, APP for the State along with SI Ekta Yadav. 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 order dated 13.12.2024 [hereafter „impugned order‟], passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (FTSC) (POCSO)- 03, South West, Dwarka Courts, Delhi, [hereafter „Trial Court‟] in SC No. 682/2022, titled as „State of NCT of Delhi v. Vinay Malhotra‟, by way of which the learned Trial Court was pleased to close the evidence of the petitioner-victim. 2. Briefly stated, the petitioner-victim had filed a complaint on the basis of which FIR No. 290/2022, dated 28.06.2022 at Police 2024. On 20.03.2024, charges under Sections 5(1) and 5(p) read with Section 6 of the POCSO Act were added under Section 216 of Cr.P.C. against the accused, based on specific allegations of penetrative sexual assault made by the victim during her examination-in-c