DEEPAK vs STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 07.11.2025 + CRL.A. 812/2025& CRL.M.(BAIL) 1248/2025 DEEPAK .....Appellant Through: Mr. Gulab Singh, Advocate versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. ...Respondents Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for the State with SI Mahendra Patel, P.S. Narela CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The appellant, by way of this appeal, seeks setting aside of the judgment of conviction dated 10.01.2025 [hereafter „impugned judgment‟] and order on sentence dated 10.03.2025 [hereafter „impugned order on sentence‟] passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-01, (POCSO/Children‟s Court), North District, Rohini Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Trial Court‟] in Sessions Case No. 57780/2016, whereby the appellant was convicted for commission of offence punishable under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter „IPC‟], and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of ten years alongwith payment of fine of ₹5,000/- for the CRL.A. 812/2025 Page 1 of 17 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:10.11.2025 19:57:53 commission of said offence, and in default of payment of fine, to undergo simple imprisonment for one month. 2. The facts of the case are that on 15.07.2012, an information was received at Police Station Narela vide DD No. 26A to the effect that rape had been committed on a girl aged about four years. Upon receipt of this information, the police officials had reached Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, where they had met the victim „P‟ and her mother. The victim had been taken to the hospital by S.I. Pradeep Thagra, to whom the investigation was initially marked; however, on the same day, it was transferred to S.I.