Juvenile Criminals

The Supreme Court has said bail cannot be denied to a juvenile in a criminal case unless the court records that the minor is likely to be associated with a known criminal, be exposed to danger, or his release would defeat the ends of justice.

In a pan-India crackdown by Delhi Police's Special Cell against the criminal module of absconding alleged terrorist Goldy Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi, nine gang members were arrested while a juvenile was apprehended, police said on Wednesday.

Purnea remand home: Five teenagers at a juvenile home shot dead their warden and a 17-year-old inmate before escaping from the facility at Bihar's Purnea town, the police said. One of the five inmates is the son of a local Janata Dal United leader, the police said. Another has a long criminal history and is facing over a dozen cases.

As many as 12 juvenile delinquents fled from a government-run observation home in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district after breaking a window grill according to the police.

Identity of a person, against whom a criminal case was lodged when he was a minor, should not be disclosed at any stage of life as it defeats the purpose of juvenile justice law, the Delhi High Court has held.

Two girls are facing criminal charges in Massachusetts after an alarming Snapchat video showed a crying infant being put into a refrigerator, police said.

More complaints are flooding in against a former school principal after his arrest for allegedly selling fake age certificates which allowed many accused to pose as juveniles though they were adults, police said.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has said that there is a very strong provision under Juvenile Justice Act in the country to stop children taking to criminal activities.

The feeling of discrimination extends from ill-treating Kashmiris in the rest of India, to the PM not attending the funeral of Chief Mufti though doing so in the case of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, to arresting the children under the infamous Public Safety Act and keeping them in regular jails with hardened criminals instead of juvenile homes, to ...

The National Human Rights Commission has issued notice to Tamil Nadu over the illegal detention and torture of a juvenile belonging to Kuravar community by the state police, a statement said on Tuesday.

The December 16, 2012 gang rape in Delhi triggered major changes in criminal laws in India, especially those dealing with rape, but changes in the law dealing with juvenile offenders are still pending. The Rajya Sabha today passed the new law to replace the existing provisions that have been in force since 2000.

Release papers were signed at 5 pm today for the youngest convict in the December 16 gang-rape case. The convict, who was in the custody of Delhi Police for security purposes for the last week, has been handed over to a Delhi-based non-profit organisation.

Reactions poured in as the Delhi Court today said that the youngest of six men who raped and tortured a young medical student, Jyoti Singh, on a moving bus in 2012 can no longer be kept at a special home.

Lowering the age bar for juvenile criminals to 15 years in case of heinous crimes, completion of investigation in a time-bound manner and proper facilities for courts to fast track rape cases - these are the three key plans of the Arvind Kejriwal to make Delhi safer for children.

A teenage US couple who spent two weeks on the run after allegedly carrying out a crime spree across several southern states was arrested on Sunday, authorities said.

The Supreme Court has said bail cannot be denied to a juvenile in a criminal case unless the court records that the minor is likely to be associated with a known criminal, be exposed to danger, or his release would defeat the ends of justice.

In a pan-India crackdown by Delhi Police's Special Cell against the criminal module of absconding alleged terrorist Goldy Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi, nine gang members were arrested while a juvenile was apprehended, police said on Wednesday.

Purnea remand home: Five teenagers at a juvenile home shot dead their warden and a 17-year-old inmate before escaping from the facility at Bihar's Purnea town, the police said. One of the five inmates is the son of a local Janata Dal United leader, the police said. Another has a long criminal history and is facing over a dozen cases.

As many as 12 juvenile delinquents fled from a government-run observation home in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district after breaking a window grill according to the police.

Identity of a person, against whom a criminal case was lodged when he was a minor, should not be disclosed at any stage of life as it defeats the purpose of juvenile justice law, the Delhi High Court has held.

Two girls are facing criminal charges in Massachusetts after an alarming Snapchat video showed a crying infant being put into a refrigerator, police said.

More complaints are flooding in against a former school principal after his arrest for allegedly selling fake age certificates which allowed many accused to pose as juveniles though they were adults, police said.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has said that there is a very strong provision under Juvenile Justice Act in the country to stop children taking to criminal activities.

The feeling of discrimination extends from ill-treating Kashmiris in the rest of India, to the PM not attending the funeral of Chief Mufti though doing so in the case of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, to arresting the children under the infamous Public Safety Act and keeping them in regular jails with hardened criminals instead of juvenile homes, to ...

The National Human Rights Commission has issued notice to Tamil Nadu over the illegal detention and torture of a juvenile belonging to Kuravar community by the state police, a statement said on Tuesday.

The December 16, 2012 gang rape in Delhi triggered major changes in criminal laws in India, especially those dealing with rape, but changes in the law dealing with juvenile offenders are still pending. The Rajya Sabha today passed the new law to replace the existing provisions that have been in force since 2000.

Release papers were signed at 5 pm today for the youngest convict in the December 16 gang-rape case. The convict, who was in the custody of Delhi Police for security purposes for the last week, has been handed over to a Delhi-based non-profit organisation.

Reactions poured in as the Delhi Court today said that the youngest of six men who raped and tortured a young medical student, Jyoti Singh, on a moving bus in 2012 can no longer be kept at a special home.

Lowering the age bar for juvenile criminals to 15 years in case of heinous crimes, completion of investigation in a time-bound manner and proper facilities for courts to fast track rape cases - these are the three key plans of the Arvind Kejriwal to make Delhi safer for children.

A teenage US couple who spent two weeks on the run after allegedly carrying out a crime spree across several southern states was arrested on Sunday, authorities said.