The top court, on September 26, had directed the Moradabad District Judge to decide the aspect of the juvenility of Azam Khan in accordance with the procedure under the Juvenile Justice Act and send the finding to it for further consideration. The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to grant interim relief to Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s son that the …
Under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, a person accused of an offence at any stage can raise a claim that he or she was a minor on the date of the commission of offence. The court is legally bound to order an inquiry to determine the age and if the claim of juvenility is proved, the accused is to be …
A day ahead of his scheduled execution, Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, has filed a review petition before the Supreme Court against its order dated January 20, whereby his juvenility claim was rejected. Pawan has contended that the impugned order was passed in ignorance of the new evidence …
The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed a 'Juvenility' plea of a triple murder convict whose death sentence affirmed by the Apex Court was later modified to life imprisonment by the President of India.Om Prakash @ Nazrul @ Raju Dass @ Raju Chaudhary @ Saiful Islam was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of triple murder. The Uttarakhand High Court …
The Supreme Court has directed the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Pune, to decide the juvenility of a murder convict at the time of commission of offence, whose death sentence was upheld by the Apex court in the year 2000. Narayan Chetanram Chaudhary and Jitendra @ Jitu Nayansingh Gehlot were sentenced to death by the Trial court finding them guilty …