UDAI PAL vs STAT

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 27.10.2025 CRL.A. 155/2007 UDAI PAL .....Appellant Through: Mr. Rajesh Kumar Passey, Advocate versus STATE .....Respondent Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for the State with Ms. Puja Mann, Mr. Vipin Kumar Yadav, Advocates and SI Vishvendra Singh CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The present appeal has been filed by the appellant, Udaipal, under Section 374 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [hereafter ‘Cr.P.C.’], seeking setting aside the judgment of conviction dated 22.05.2006 [hereafter ‘impugned judgment’] and the order on sentence dated 27.05.2006 [hereafter ‘impugned order on sentence’] passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi [hereafter ‘Trial Court’] in Sessions Case No. 40/2006, arising out of FIR No. 426/2005, registered at Police Station Mayur Vihar, Delhi, for offences punishable under 2. The brief facts, as borne out from the record, are that on 11.11.2005, the prosecutrix, a minor girl, went missing from her house. A missing report was lodged on 14.11.2005, but when she could not be traced, the present