RAJU SUNAR vs STATE

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 03.09.2025 % Pronounced on: 15.09.2025 CRL.A. 1145/2016 RAJU SUNAR S/O NAVAL SUNAR .....Appellant Through: Mr.Azhar Qayum @ A.Q.Butt, Advocate ( DHCLSC) with Mr. Narender Kumar, Advocate versus THE STATE ( NCT OF DELHI) .....Respondent Through: Mr.Pradeep Gahalot, APP for State. Ms.Gayatri nandwani, Advocate, (DHCSLC) with Ms. Mudita Sharda and Mr.Adrian Abbi, Advocates for the victims. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ KUMAR OHRI JUDGMENT 1. By way of present appeal filed under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Cr.P.C’), the appellant has assailed the judgment of conviction dated 13.10.2016 and order on sentence dated 18.10.2016 passed by ASJ-01 North, Rohini, Delhi in SC Case No. 58033/2016 arising out of F.I.R. No. 282/2014, registered under Sections 377 IPC and Sections 6 & 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘POCSO Act’), at P.S. Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi. Vide the impugned judgment and order on sentence, the appellant was 2. Briefly put, the facts as enumerated from the record disclosed that the investigation in th