JUDGMENT :

[VIA VIDEO CONFERENCING]

CHANDRA DHARI SINGH, J.

1. The instant criminal appeals under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (hereinafter “Cr.P.C.”) have been filed against the impugned judgment dated 16th March 2016 and order on sentence dated 11th April 2016 passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Special Fast Track Court, Southeast District, Saket Court, New Delhi wherein the Appellants/Accused persons were convicted and sentenced.

2. Since the criminal appeals bearing number CRL.A.-692/16, CRL.A.-815/16, CRL.A.-892/16, CRL.A.-894/16, CRL.A.-897/16, and CRL.A.-1053/16 have arisen out of the same FIR, pertain to the same set of facts, and have been heard together, therefore the same are being decided by way of this common judgment.

FACTUAL MATRIX

3. The brief facts and circumstances that have led to the instant case are as under:

(i) On 19th May 2012 at about 4:45 P.M., information was received at Police Control Room that a lady had been raped by many persons in a truck near Gas Plant, Kalindi Kunj. On receiving the said information, police team rea