RAM LAL @ MALLA vs STATE

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 2016. 2. Pithily put, the case of the prosecution is that on 22.10.2012, the victim’s father lodged a report at P.