IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 08.10.2025 + CRL.L.P. 531/2022 & CRL.M.A. 23968/2022 STATE ..... Petitioner versus SUBHASH ..... Respondent Advocates who appeared in this case:

For the Petitioner : Mr. Raj Kumar, APP for the State.

SI Manisha Sharma, PS Hauz Khas.

For the Respondents : Mr. Naveen Kumar Tripathi, Adv. through V.C.

CORAM HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN

JUDGMENT

1. The present petition is filed under Section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (‘CrPC’) seeking leave to challenge the judgment dated 06.10.2021 (hereafter ‘impugned judgment’) in Sessions Case No. 7808 of 2016 arising out of FIR No. 460/2016, registered at Police Station Hauz Khas, New Delhi whereby the learned Trial Court acquitted the respondent of offences punishable under Sections 376(2)/342/354A/354D of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’) and Section 4 read with Section 3 and Section 12 read with Section 11 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (‘POCSO Act’).

2. The brief facts of the case are that the respondent allegedly raped the prosecutrix, who was 15 years old at the time of the alleged incident. It is alleged that the respondent would