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JUDGMENT

DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J

1. The appellant has, by way of this appeal, assailed the judgment dated 15.02.2025 [hereafter ‗impugned judgment‘] and order on sentence dated 27.02.2025 [hereafter ‗impugned order on sentence‘], passed by the learned Additional Sessions Special Judge (FTSC) (POCSO), South-East District, Saket Courts, Delhi [hereafter ‗Trial Court‘], whereby he has been convicted in SC No. 119/2020, arising out of FIR No. 21/2020, registered at Police Station Sarita Vihar, Delhi, for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 376/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter ‗IPC‘] and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [hereafter ‗POCSO Act‘].

FACTUAL BACKDROP

2. The FIR in the present case was registered on the basis of a written complaint lodged by the father of the victim child, alleging therein that in August 2017, he had come to Delhi along with his wife ‗K‘ and their minor daughter  ‘S‘ (victim) in search of employment. In Delhi, he had become acquainted with one Alok Yadav (the appellant herein) who had arranged private jobs for him and his wife, and thereafter they had started residing in a house