RAM LAL @ MALLA vs STATE

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$~34 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 16.10.2025 + CRL.A. 707/2016 RAM LAL @ MALLA .....Appellant Through: Mr. Mayank Kumar, Advocate versus STATE .....Respondent Through: Mr. Pradeep Gahalot, APP for State with SI Shivam CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ KUMAR OHRI JUDGMENT (ORAL) 1. By way of the present appeal, the appellant seeks to assail the judgment of conviction dated 29.04.2016 and the order on sentence dated 30.04.2016 passed by the Learned Addl. Sessions Judge-01, North-East District, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi, in Sessions Case No. 44565/2015 arising out of FIR No. 368/2012 registered under Section 363 IPC at P.S. Seelampur. Vide the impugned order on sentence, the appellant was sentenced to the period already undergone by him for the offence punishable under Section 342 IPC; and to RI for a period of 5 years along with a fine of Rs.5,000/-, in default whereof he was to undergo SI for 1 month, for the offence punishable under Section 363 IPC. The benefit of concurrent running of sentences as well as that under Section 428 Cr.P.C. was granted Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:NIJAMUDDEEN ANSARI CRL.A. 707/2016 Pg.1 of 5 Signing Date:19.10.2025 07:59:00 to the appellant. His sentence was suspended during the pendency of the present appeal vide order dated 01.08.2016, and he was accordingly released from custody on 17.09.2016. 2. Pithily put, the case of the prosecution is that on 22.10.2012, the victim’s father lodged a report at P.S. Seelampur regarding his 13-year-old daughter having gone missing, alleging that she had gone to school on 19.10.2012 but did not return home. On the basis of his complaint, the concerned FIR was registered. The victim was subsequently recovered along with the appellant herein from Village Bamno