NABI HASAN vs THE STATE (GOVT.OF NCT) DELHI & ANR.

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 13.05.2026 Judgment pronounced on: 16.05.2026 CRL.A. 189/2025 NABI HASAN .....Appellant Through: Mr. Shivek Trehan, (DHCLSC) with Ms. Manika Pandey, Advocate. versus THE STATE (GOVT.OF NCT) DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Utkarsh, APP for the State. Ms. Vasundhara Nongmeikapam, (DHCLSC), Advocate for R- 2/Victim. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE CHANDRASEKHARAN SUDHA JUDGMENT CHANDRASEKHARAN SUDHA, J. 1. In this appeal filed under Section 415(2) read with Section 528 Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (the B.N.S.S.), the sole accused, in Sessions Case No. 623/2017 on the file of the Additional Sessions Judge, Special Court (PoCSO), South District, Saket Court, New Delhi, assails the judgment dated CRL.A. 189/2025 2. The prosecution case is that in the morning of 21.08.2017 between 08:00 AM to 10:15 AM, at the house of ‘R’, a minor boy aged about 6 to 7 years, the accused, taking advantage of the mental and physical disability of the boy, committed sodomy. Hence, as per the charge-sheet/final report dated 14.11.2017, the accused was alleged to have committed the offences punishable under Section 377 IPC and