MADHU SHUDHAN DUTTO vs STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment Reserved on: 08.01.2026 Judgment pronounced on: 15.01.2026 CRL.A. 649/2025 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 1046/2025 MADHU SHUDHAN DUTTO .....Appellant Through: Mr. Biswajit Kumar P. and Ms. Khushboo Gupta, Advocates. Versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Pradeep Gahlot, APP for State Mr. Amit Gupta, Mr. Kshitij Vaibhav, Ms. Muskan Nagpal and Mr. H.S. Mahapatra, Advocates for respondent No.2. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE CHANDRASEKHARAN SUDHA JUDGMENT CHANDRASEKHARAN SUDHA, J. 1. In this appeal filed under Section 415(2) read with Section 528 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the appellant, the sole accused in SC No. 2685 of 2016 on the file of the Special Court under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Saket Courts, Delhi, assails the judgment dated 17.01.2025 as per which he has been convicted and sentenced for the offences punishable under Section 6 of the PoCSO Act and Section 342 of 2. The prosecution case is that on 28.06.2016 at about 03:45 PM at A-215, V.P. Singh Camp Railway Colony, Tuglakabad, New Delhi, the appellant/accused wrongfully confined PW1, the daughter of PW7, a min