MOHD AMAN RANA vs THE STATE

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 29.01.2026 Judgment pronounced on: 04.04.2026 Judgment uploaded on: 04.04.2026 + CRL.REV.P. 37/2024 & CRL.M.A. 730/2024 MOHD AMAN RANA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Vikas Sharma, Advocate versus THE STATE .....Respondent Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for the State with Ms. Amisha Dahiya, Advocate CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of this petition, the petitioner seeks quashing of the order dated 12.10.2023 [hereafter „impugned order‟], passed in by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (SC-POCSO), North East, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Sessions Court‟], in SC No. 275/2023, arising out of FIR No. 462/2023, registered at Police Station New UsmanPur, Delhi, for commission of offences punishable under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter „IPC‟] and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [hereafter „POCSO Act‟], vide which the CRL.REV.P. 37/2024 Page 1 of 15 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:04.04.2026 15:09:19 petitioner herein had been declared a „proclaimed offender‟ under Section 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [hereafter „Cr.P.C.‟]. 2. Briefly stated, the prosecution case is that on 13.06.2023, at about 8:30 PM, the complainant had sent her 8-year-old daughter, „A‟, to a nearby shop to buy salt. Shortly thereafter, the child returned crying and informed her family members that while she was on her way to the shop, co-accused Roshan, who lives nearby, had called her inside her house. It is alleged that when Roshan went to the kitchen, the present petitioner pulled down the child‟s pyjama, touched her private parts and thereafter m