IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

% Judgment reserved on :10.10.2025

Judgment pronounced on: 09.01.2026

+ CRL.A. 240/2023 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 375/2023

BADAL @ PRINCE MALHOTRA ..... Appellant

versus

STATE (NCT OF DELHI) ..... Respondent

Advocates who appeared in this case:

For the Appellant : Mr. Saurabh Upadhyay, Mr. Aakash

Yadav, Mr. Salil Dixit and Mr. Amit

Upadhyay, Advocates.

For the Respondent :Mr. Sunil Kumar Gautam, APP for the State

with SI Asha, PS Sarita Vihar.

Mr. Asheesh Jain, Senior Advocate (Amicus Curiae) with Mr. Adarsh Kumar Gupta, Mr. Vishal Gupta and Ms. Neha Yadav,

Advocates.

CORAM

HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN

JUDGMENT

1. The present appeal is filed challenging the judgment of conviction dated 22.09.2022 (hereafter ‘impugned judgment’) and order on sentence dated 29.11.2022 (hereafter ‘impugned order on

sentence’), passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, New Delhi District, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi in SC No. 9503/2016 arising out of FIR No. 322/2016 (‘FIR’), registered at Police Station Sagarpur.

2. By the impugned judgment, the appellant was held convicted for the offences under Section 376(2)(i) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’) and Section 4 of the Pro