* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

% Date of Decision: 07.11.2025

+ CRL.A. 1095/2019

KRISHNA NAND TIWARI .....Appellant

Through: Mr. Adit S. Pujari, (DHCLSC) Ms. Vanya Chhabra, Mr. Manvendra Singh Shekhawat and Mr. Harshwardhan Pushkin Sharma, Advs.

versus

STATE .....Respondent

Through: Ms. Shubhi Gupta, APP for State with SI Shyam Bir Singh, Okhla Indl. Area,

Mr. Himanshu Anand Gupta, (Amicus Curiae)

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ KUMAR OHRI

JUDGMENT (ORAL)

1. The present appeal has been preferred seeking to assail the judgment of conviction dated 11.07.2019 and order on sentence dated 30.08.2019, vide which the appellant has been convicted for the offences under Section 5(m) punishable under Section 6 POCSO Act, and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 12 years with a fine of Rs. 20,000/-, in default whereof, he was further sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of 6 months. The benefit of Section 428 Cr.P.C. was extended to the appellant.

2. Brief facts in nutshell are that on 13.04.2013, DD No. 19 came to be recorded at P.S Okhla Industrial Area, wherein, it was alleged that the accused who at the time was