JUDGMENT

DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J

1. By way of this petition, the petitioner seeks quashing of the order dated 12.10.2023 [hereafter ‘impugned order’], passed in by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (SC-POCSO), North East, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi [hereafter ‘Sessions Court’], in SC No. 275/2023, arising out of FIR No. 462/2023, registered at Police Station New UsmanPur, Delhi, for commission of offences punishable under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter ‘IPC’] and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [hereafter ‘POCSO Act’], vide which the

petitioner herein had been declared a ‘proclaimed offender’ under Section 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [hereafter ‘Cr.P.C.’].

2. Briefly stated, the prosecution case is that on 13.06.2023, at about 8:30 PM, the complainant had sent her 8-year-old daughter, ‘A’, to a nearby shop to buy salt. Shortly thereafter, the child returned crying and informed her family members that while she was on her way to the shop, co-accused Roshan, who lives nearby, had called her inside her house. It is alleged that when Roshan went to the kitchen, the present petitioner pulled down the ch