SUNIL vs STATE

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on : 04.11.2025 Pronounced on : 02.02.2026 Uploaded on : 02.02.2026 CRL.A. 1048/2017 SUNIL .....Appellant Through: Ms. Inderjeet Sidhu, Advocate. versus STATE .....Respondent Through: Ms. Shubhi Gupta, APP for State with SI Sanjay Meena. Ms. Sanya Kumar, Advocate for Victim. Mr. Himanshu Anand Gupta, Mr. Shekhar Anand Gupta, Ms. Mansi Yadav, Ms. Shivani, and Ms. Navneet Kaur, Advocates for DSLSA. 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 12.07.2017 and the order on sentence dated 05.08.2017 passed by the learned ASJ-SFTC (South East), Saket Courts, Delhi in proceedings arising out of FIR No. 370/2010 registered under Sections 366/376/323 IPC at P.S. Okhla Industrial Area. Vide the impugned order on sentence, the appellant was sentenced to undergo RI for a period of 4 years along with payment of fine of Rs.15,000/- 2. Pithily put, the case of the prosecution is that on 11.11.2010, the father of the prosecutrix reported at the police station that his daughter, aged about 15 years, had gone missing. She had been staying with he