While upholding the conviction of a juvenile for rape of a four-year-old girl, the Madhya Pradesh High Court lamented the "lenient" laws in the country so far as juvenile offenders are concerned. Justice Subodh Abhyankar sitting at Indore observed, “Court is once again at pains to observe that juveniles in this country are being treated rather too leniently, and that …
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a life term in prison without parole for a defendant who was 15 when he fatally stabbed his grandfather in Mississippi, ruling that a sentencing judge need not decide that the young person was “permanently incorrigible.” The 6-3 decision retreats somewhat from a pair of earlier rulings, which said that such life sentences for …
