The Supreme Court yesterday said that it needs to hear on merits whether the conviction of Samajwadi Party leader Mohammed Abdullah Azam Khan, based on which he was disqualified as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, can be set aside on determination of juvenility. On September 26, 2023, the Court directed the District Judge, Rampur, to submit a …
More than 13 years after the Supreme Court dismissed the SLP against his conviction in a rape case dating back to 2004, the Telangana High Court has directed the trial court to pass fresh order on the convict's claim of juvenility. The division bench of Justice K Lakshman and Justice Sree Sudha said the trial court shall conduct enquiry in …
The Supreme Court observed that the delay in raising the claim of juvenility is no ground for rejection of such a claim.Such a claim can be raised at any stage, even after the final disposal of the case, the bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Krishna Murari observed.The court was considering an application filed by one Isha Charan who has …
A day ahead of his scheduled execution, the Supreme Court dismissed the review petition filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, against the order dated January 20, whereby his juvenility claim was rejected. He submitted that the school certificate came to light only after 2017, when his lawyers …
