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Children's Court Meant To Try Not Just Cases Where Child Rights Are Violated But Also Juveniles To Be Tried As Adults: MP High Court
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Children's Court Meant To Try Not Just Cases Where Child Rights Are Violated But Also Juveniles To Be Tried As Adults: MP High Court

Live Law  

In a recent judgement, the MP High Court clarified the Children's Court is not only for trying the cases where child rights have been violated and victims are children but also for juveniles aged 16-18 who are accused of committing heinous offences. In Sections 15 and 18 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, it is laid down that Juvenile Justice …

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"Juveniles Treated Too Leniently In This Country, Legislature Has Still Not Learnt Any Lessons From Horrors Of Nirbhaya": MP High Court
3 months, 3 weeks ago

"Juveniles Treated Too Leniently In This Country, Legislature Has Still Not Learnt Any Lessons From Horrors Of Nirbhaya": MP High Court

Live Law  

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 …

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Trying juveniles as adults is not the answer
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Trying juveniles as adults is not the answer

The Hindu  

In May, a speeding car, allegedly driven by a teenager, killed two young techies in Pune. The High Court noted that the JJ Act is “not only a beneficial legislation, but is also a remedial one.” The push by some to prosecute the adolescent as an adult raises broader questions about the power of the juvenile justice system to address …

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Pune Porsche crash: Bombay HC raises concerns over juvenile’s mental health
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Pune Porsche crash: Bombay HC raises concerns over juvenile’s mental health

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday expressed concerns about the mental health and trauma faced by the 17-year-old juvenile allegedly responsible for the deaths of two techies in the Pune Porsche incident. The WCD department has issued an eight-page notices to two JJB members for showing “too much” leniency in giving bail to the 17-year-old teenager A division bench …

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Juveniles Tried As Adults Cannot Be Deprived Of Their Right To Bail Under Juvenile Justice Act: Uttarakhand High Court
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Juveniles Tried As Adults Cannot Be Deprived Of Their Right To Bail Under Juvenile Justice Act: Uttarakhand High Court

Live Law  

The Uttarakhand High Court has extended bail to a juvenile accused in a case registered under Sections 376, 506 of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 5/6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. Subsequently, the JJ Board conducted a preliminary assessment under Section 15 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, and ordered that the accused be …

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Scrutiny In Proceedings Must Be Avoided To Insulate & Protect Juvenile: J&K High Court Slams Disclosure Of Identity Of Juveniles In Conflict With Law
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Scrutiny In Proceedings Must Be Avoided To Insulate & Protect Juvenile: J&K High Court Slams Disclosure Of Identity Of Juveniles In Conflict With Law

Live Law  

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has come down heavily on courts operating in the Union Territories for routinely disclosing the identities of juveniles in conflict with law in their orders. While granting bail to a 17-year-old boy accused of attempted murder in Samba district Justice Sanjeev Kumar observed, “Courts working in the Union Territory of Jammu and …

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Pak juveniles’ wait return home gets longer
9 months, 1 week ago

Pak juveniles’ wait return home gets longer

Hindustan Times  

Faridkot: Two Pakistani juveniles who had ‘accidentally’ crossed the border were denied passage as the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi failed to provide their travel documents. Tarn Taran police had arrested the two juveniles on September 1, 2022, near the Indo-Pak border. Two weeks ago, the ministry of external affairs had granted approval for their release, and the duo …

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Heinousness Of Crime No Consideration For Granting Bail To Juvenile Must Consider Risk Of Association With Criminals, Juvenile's Safety: J&K High Court
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Heinousness Of Crime No Consideration For Granting Bail To Juvenile Must Consider Risk Of Association With Criminals, Juvenile's Safety: J&K High Court

Live Law  

Reaffirming the paramount importance of Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has ruled that the heinousness of the crime or other considerations, typically weighed in adult bail matters, should not influence decisions regarding juvenile bail pleas. In allowing a bail application of a Juvenile under Sec 12 of the JJ …

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Mahakal spitting case: Witnesses who withdrew their testimony allowing the accused Muslim teen to get bail allege they were threatened
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Mahakal spitting case: Witnesses who withdrew their testimony allowing the accused Muslim teen to get bail allege they were threatened

Op India  

The leftist-liberal-friendly media has recently been showing keen interest in the case where three Islamists, including two juveniles, were arrested in July last year for spitting on the Baba Mahakal procession held in Ujjain last year. Notably, the case suddenly gained special attention of the leftist media as soon as the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court granted …

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Juvenile Justice Board's Decision To Try Child As Adult Must Be Transparent And Fair: Bombay High Court
1 year, 6 months ago

Juvenile Justice Board's Decision To Try Child As Adult Must Be Transparent And Fair: Bombay High Court

Live Law  

Owing to several procedural lapses by the Juvenile Justice Board, Yavatmal, the Bombay High Court ordered re-adjudication of a plea to try two juveniles as adults in the case of a gang-rape of a minor girl. Justice GA Sanap at the Nagpur bench noted that the JJB’s roznama didn’t specify if the juveniles or their advocates were even given a …

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Hyderabad teen rape accused a minor, says high court
1 year, 8 months ago

Hyderabad teen rape accused a minor, says high court

Hindustan Times  

The Telangana high court on Tuesday declared as a juvenile, one of the six accused in the sensational gang rape of a 16-year-old girl abducted from a pub in the upscale Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad on May 28 last year, people familiar with the matter said. On September 30, the fifth additional chief metropolitan magistrate of Juvenile Justice Board …

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Kentucky to operate high-security juvenile detention centers
2 years ago

Kentucky to operate high-security juvenile detention centers

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky soon will operate three high-security juvenile detention centers designated to house teenage male offenders charged with serious crimes, Gov. Beshear announced Thursday that the facilities to be given the high-security designation are the Adair Regional Detention Center, Fayette Regional Juvenile Detention Center and Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center. Four facilities will house male juveniles younger than …

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Lenient law lets juveniles commit crimes, says Supreme Court
2 years, 1 month ago

Lenient law lets juveniles commit crimes, says Supreme Court

The Hindu  

A lenient juvenile law has increasingly emboldened juveniles to commit heinous crimes and it is for the government to re-examine the law before it is too late in the day, the Supreme Court said in a judgment on Wednesday. Justice Pardiwala, who authored the judgment, expressed doubts whether the merciful ways of the Juvenile Justice Act of 2015 with the …

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[JJ Act] No Fundamental or Statutory Right To Pursue Higher Education Outside India, Juvenile's Right To Travel Abroad Can Be Curtailed: Punjab And Haryana High Court
2 years, 3 months ago

[JJ Act] No Fundamental or Statutory Right To Pursue Higher Education Outside India, Juvenile's Right To Travel Abroad Can Be Curtailed: Punjab And Haryana High Court

Live Law  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that an undertrial or a juvenile who is in conflict with law does not have any fundamental or statutory right to pursue higher education abroad.Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri in the ruling also said that though the right to travel abroad is a "valuable and basic right" apart from being an integral part …

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JH gang-rape: HC grants bail to fifth juvenile accused
2 years, 5 months ago

JH gang-rape: HC grants bail to fifth juvenile accused

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The High Court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to the fifth juvenile accused in the sensation gang-rape of a minor at Jubilee Hills on May 28. The Nampally court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to four juveniles accused in the case. The fifth juvenile’s counsel produced the bail orders of four other juveniles who were granted bail on Tuesday, …

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Juveniles Detained In Adult Jails: Delhi High Court To Consider Streamlining Process Of Assessing Age Of Arrestee When Brought To Police Station
2 years, 11 months ago

Juveniles Detained In Adult Jails: Delhi High Court To Consider Streamlining Process Of Assessing Age Of Arrestee When Brought To Police Station

Live Law  

Noting that there was an alarming number of about 800 juveniles or children in conflict with law who were detained in adult jails in Tihar in the past five years, the Delhi High Court is set to consider streamlining the process of assessing the age of an arrestee when brought to a police station. The development came after the bench …

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Sexual education a must to fight rape, say experts
3 years ago

Sexual education a must to fight rape, say experts

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad,: Rape on girls, even infants, has become commonplace now and acts of sexual depravity have ceased to shock the society. In many cases, parents who are opposed to their daughters making sexual choices have tended to use criminal law to control their daughters and punish the men with whom they tried having sexual intimacy. Shikha Goel said, “We encourage …

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Indicate Number Of Juveniles In Adult Homes & Those Transferred From Adult Jails To JJ Homes In Last 5 Years: High Court Asks Delhi Govt
3 years ago

Indicate Number Of Juveniles In Adult Homes & Those Transferred From Adult Jails To JJ Homes In Last 5 Years: High Court Asks Delhi Govt

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Delhi Government to indicate the number of juveniles present in adult homes and also the number of juveniles transferred from adult jails to Juvenile Justice Homes in the last 5 years. During the course of hearing today, Rao submitted that a direction may be issued to the Juvenile Justice Boards that within …

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Age Determination Process of Juvenile Offenders to be Completed Within 15 Days: Delhi HC
3 years, 2 months ago

Age Determination Process of Juvenile Offenders to be Completed Within 15 Days: Delhi HC

News 18  

The Delhi High Court has directed that the process of age determination of a juvenile in conflict with law shall be completed within 15 days of filing of documents and ossification test by the investigating officer of a case. The high court said the investigating officer shall ensure that the ossification test in relation to the juvenile is completed, a …

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Juvenile Justice Act- Delhi High Court Issues TimeLine For Completing 'Age Determination' Of 'Juveniles In Conflict With Law'
3 years, 2 months ago

Juvenile Justice Act- Delhi High Court Issues TimeLine For Completing 'Age Determination' Of 'Juveniles In Conflict With Law'

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has issued directions for streamlining the process of inquiries relating to juveniles in conflict with law and scrupulous compliance by all authorities. A bench comprising Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Anup J Bhambhani issued the following directions: In all cases pertaining to juveniles in conflict with law, regardless of the nature of offences alleged, upon directions …

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Juvenile Not To Be Tried As An Adult Merely Because The Offence Is Heinous: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]
5 years, 5 months ago

Juvenile Not To Be Tried As An Adult Merely Because The Offence Is Heinous: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court has set aside the order of Juvenile Justice Board that had directed to try a 'juvenile' accused of murder of a 3 year old girl 'as an adult'.He shall be tried as a juvenile, said Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu while observing that the Board had mechanically relied on the Social Investigation Report and Mental Health Report, …

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Anticipatory Bail And Juveniles: An Ambiguous Tale
5 years, 6 months ago

Anticipatory Bail And Juveniles: An Ambiguous Tale

Live Law  

Law pertaining to grant of anticipatory bail to juveniles is in a state of flux in India and the absence of the Supreme Court ruling has only added to the ambiguity. Recently, Madhya Pradesh High Court has opined that a juvenile is not entitled to move an application under Section 438 of Criminal Procedure Code for anticipatory bail. As per …

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Southwest Border Apprehensions Show Small Decline In January
5 years, 11 months ago

Southwest Border Apprehensions Show Small Decline In January

NPR  

Southwest Border Apprehensions Show Small Decline In January Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP New government figures released Friday show that the U.S. Border Patrol arrested or denied entry to 58,207 individuals in January 2019, a 4 percent decrease from 60,779 in December 2018. However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in a statement, says it is still seeing a …

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