IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 11.12.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 16.03.2026 + CRL.A. 1436/2025 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 2101/2025 MOHD. MUJAHID .....Appellant versus THE STATE (GOVT. OF NCT) DELHI & ANR. ..... Respondents Advocates who appeared in this case:

For the Appellant : Mr. Adit S. Pujari, Adv. (DHCSLC) with Mr. Manvender Singh Shekhawat and Mr.

Harshwardhan Puskin Sharma, Advs.

For the Respondent : Mr. Sunil Kumar Gautam, APP for the State with Insp. Satbir Singh, PS Jaitpur CORAM HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN

JUDGMENT

CRL.A. 1436/2025

1. The present appeal is filed challenging the judgment dated 23.07.2025 (hereafter ‘impugned judgment’) and order on sentence dated 31.07.2025 (hereafter ‘impugned order on sentence’), passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (‘ASJ’), Saket Courts, Delhi in Sessions Case No. 352/2019 arising out of FIR No. 111/2019 (‘FIR’), registered at Police Station Jaitpur.

2. By the impugned judgment, the learned ASJ convicted the appellant for the offences under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’) and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (‘POCSO Act’).

3. By the impugned order