STATE (NCT) OF DELHI vs VIKAS JAIN

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 18.09.2025 CRL.REV.P. 663/2017 STATE (NCT) OF DELHI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for the State with Inspector Gurdeep Kaur and SI Jyoti. versus VIKAS JAIN .....Respondent Through: Ms. Nandita Jha, Advocate CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of this petition, the State has assailed the order of discharge dated 12.01.2017 [hereafter „impugned order‟] passed by the learned Additional and Sessions Judge/SFTC-2, (Central), Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Sessions Court‟] in case arising out of FIR bearing no. 96/2016, registered at Police Station Maurice Nagar, Delhi, for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 376/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter ‘IPC’]. 2. Briefly stated, facts of present case are that the FIR had been registered on the complaint of the prosecutrix, who alleged that she had been introduced to the respondent-accused by one Mr. Satish Sharma. Both the prosecutrix and the accused had been working in Signature Not Verified CRL.REV.P. 663/2017 Page 1 of 12 Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:22.09.2025 18:28:32 the same office. It was alleged that on 19.07.2013, the accused had called her to Delhi University, where he had served her a cold drink laced with sedatives and had thereafter taken her to „Bonta Park‟, where he had allegedly committed sexual intercourse with her and had threatened her not to lodge any complaint against him. Thereafter, the accused had promised to marry her, and the prosecutrix had remained in relationship with him from 19.07.2013 till 18.03.2016. It was also alleged that during this period, on 08.02.2014, the accused had got her pregnancy terminated a