SATISH @ LALLA @ KARI vs STATE

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on : 30.07.2025 Pronounced on : 06.10.2025 CRL.A. 312/2020, CRL.M.(BAIL) 1213/2025 SATISH @ LALLA @ KARI .....Appellant Through: Ms. Rashmi Chopra, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Alam Bir Singh, Advocate. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Ms. Shubhi Gupta, APP for State with SI Satish Kumar, P.S. Mangol Puri. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ KUMAR OHRI JUDGMENT 1. By way of the present appeal, the appellant seeks to assail the judgment of conviction dated 20.02.2020 and the order on sentence dated 28.02.2020, passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-03, North- West District, Rohini, Delhi, in SC No. 53524/2016 arising out of FIR No. 565/2008 registered under Section 307 at P.S. Mangol Puri. After completion of investigation, a chargesheet was filed against the appellant, and charges under Section 307 IPC and Sections 25(1-B)(a) and 27 Arms Act were subsequently framed, to which the appellant pleaded not guilty and claimed trial. Vide the impugned order on sentence, the appellant was sentenced to undergo RI for a period of 4 years alongwith fine of Rs.80,000/-, in default 2. Pithily put, the prosecution’s case is