VICTIM vs STATE AND ANR

Judgment text excerpt

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 13.05.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 836/2024 & CRL.M.A. 19283/2024 VICTIM .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Virender Tarun and Mr. Chirag Mahalwal, Advocates versus STATE AND ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for State along with SI Renu. Mr. Mohit Sharma along with Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Advocates for R-2. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The petitioner-victim, by way of this revision petition, has assailed the order on charge dated 23.03.2024 [hereafter „impugned order‟] passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Central, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Sessions Court‟] in case arising out of FIR No. 405/2022, registered at Police Station Wazirabad, Delhi. 2. Brief facts of the case, as per the prosecution, are that the victim had come to Delhi for preparation of competitive examinations and had met the accused in February 2019. They had exchanged phone numbers and had started talking to each other. It is alleged that the accused had clicked a few photographs of the victim Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CRL.REV.P. 836/2024 Page 1 of 12 By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:14.05.2025 14:53:49 and thereafter had threatened to share the same with her family members. Under the threat of these photographs, he had allegedly established a forcible sexual relationship with her and had also video recorded the act. He had further threatened to circulate the video if she reported the matter to anyone. According to the victim, the accused had continued to pressure her by using the said photographs, and in June 2019, had called her to his room at Wazirabad, where he had emotionally blackmailed her and promised to marry her. On this assurance, h