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Juvenility Clause Can Be Raised At Any Stage Of Trial: Allahabad High Court
In an important judgment, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has held that a person can raise a plea of juvenility even after passage of 22 years during trial.
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Notice To Centre On Plea Challenging Amendments To Child Rights Act
The Supreme Court Monday sought a response from the Centre to a plea challenging the recent amendment to the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 by which certain categories of offences against children have been made non-cognizable.
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Man Serving Life Term In 20-Year-Old Murder Case Raises Juvenility Plea Before Supreme Court
A man who is serving life term in a case of murder of a woman has claimed before the Supreme Court that he was a juvenile at the time of incident in April 2001.
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Top Court To Hear Nirbhaya Convict's Plea On Juvenile Claim On January 20
The Supreme Court will hear on January 20 a plea of a death row convict in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case against a Delhi High Court order dismissing his claim of being a juvenile at the time of commission of the offence.
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High Court Dismisses Plea Of Nirbhaya Convict Who Claimed He Was Juvenile
The claim of one of the four convicts sentenced to death in the Nirbhaya case that he was below 18 when at the time of the gang-rape and murder in 2012, was dismissed by the Delhi High Court on Thursday.
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Kathua Case: Trial Against Juvenile From Tomorrow
The trial against a juvenile accused in the horrific rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl at Kathua last year will begin on Monday as the Jammu and Kashmir High Court refused to entertain a plea for an early hearing of a petition challenging his status as a minor, officials said
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Gurgaon Schoolboy Murder: Top Court Rejects Juvenile Accused's Bail Plea
The Supreme Court today rejected a bail plea of a juvenile, accused of killing a seven-year-old boy in a private school in Gurgaon.
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Pradyuman Murder Case: Juvenile Accused's Bail Plea Rejected
On May 21, a Child Sessions Court in Gurugram had ruled that the juvenile accused in Pradyuman murder case should be tried as an adult.
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"Careless Mistakes" In Birth Record Application May Haunt Kathua Juvenile
An application by a father 14 years ago to register the birth of his three children is the centrepiece of the Jammu and Kashmir police's plea that one of the eight accused in the horrific rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, be tried as an adult.
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In Gurgaon School Death Case, Court Says Accused To Be Treated As Adult
A sessions court today dismissed the plea of a 16-year-old student, challenging the Juvenile Justice Board's (JJB) decision declaring him as an adult, in the murder case of a seven-year-old boy at a private school.
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Kathua Court Denies Bail To Juvenile Accused In 8-Year-Old's Rape And Murder Case
A Kathua court Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of an alleged juvenile offender, detained in the rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl.
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CBI Opposes Bail Of Juvenile Accused In Pradyuman Thakur Murder Case
The CBI today opposed in a Gurgaon court the bail plea of the 16-year-old student, accused of killing a seven-year-old boy, at the Ryan International school. Additional sessions judge Jasbir Singh Kundu fixed the matter for January 6 for arguments on the appeal filed by the accused against an order of the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) denying him ba...
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Mercedes Hit-And-Run Case: Court Seeks Reply From Police
A court in New Delhi today sought response of Delhi police on a plea of a teenager, who allegedly ran over a 32-year-old marketing executive while driving his father's Mercedes, challenging the Juvenile Justice Board's (JJB) order to try him as an adult.
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Plea Filed In Supreme Court Against New Central Law On Juveniles
A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the recently-passed juvenile law that allows delinquent minors of 16 years of age and above to be tried as adults if they commit heinous offences like rape and murder.
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How Many Nirbhayas Needed For Laws To Change: Nirbhaya's Parents
With the Supreme Court rejecting the plea against release of the juvenile convict, the parents of the December 16 gang-rape victim today said the courts have failed them and asked how many Nirbhayas would it take for the laws to change.
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Juvenility Clause Can Be Raised At Any Stage Of Trial: Allahabad High Court
In an important judgment, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has held that a person can raise a plea of juvenility even after passage of 22 years during trial.
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Notice To Centre On Plea Challenging Amendments To Child Rights Act
The Supreme Court Monday sought a response from the Centre to a plea challenging the recent amendment to the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 by which certain categories of offences against children have been made non-cognizable.
-
Man Serving Life Term In 20-Year-Old Murder Case Raises Juvenility Plea Before Supreme Court
A man who is serving life term in a case of murder of a woman has claimed before the Supreme Court that he was a juvenile at the time of incident in April 2001.
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Top Court To Hear Nirbhaya Convict's Plea On Juvenile Claim On January 20
The Supreme Court will hear on January 20 a plea of a death row convict in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case against a Delhi High Court order dismissing his claim of being a juvenile at the time of commission of the offence.
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High Court Dismisses Plea Of Nirbhaya Convict Who Claimed He Was Juvenile
The claim of one of the four convicts sentenced to death in the Nirbhaya case that he was below 18 when at the time of the gang-rape and murder in 2012, was dismissed by the Delhi High Court on Thursday.
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Kathua Case: Trial Against Juvenile From Tomorrow
The trial against a juvenile accused in the horrific rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl at Kathua last year will begin on Monday as the Jammu and Kashmir High Court refused to entertain a plea for an early hearing of a petition challenging his status as a minor, officials said
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Gurgaon Schoolboy Murder: Top Court Rejects Juvenile Accused's Bail Plea
The Supreme Court today rejected a bail plea of a juvenile, accused of killing a seven-year-old boy in a private school in Gurgaon.
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Pradyuman Murder Case: Juvenile Accused's Bail Plea Rejected
On May 21, a Child Sessions Court in Gurugram had ruled that the juvenile accused in Pradyuman murder case should be tried as an adult.
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"Careless Mistakes" In Birth Record Application May Haunt Kathua Juvenile
An application by a father 14 years ago to register the birth of his three children is the centrepiece of the Jammu and Kashmir police's plea that one of the eight accused in the horrific rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, be tried as an adult.
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In Gurgaon School Death Case, Court Says Accused To Be Treated As Adult
A sessions court today dismissed the plea of a 16-year-old student, challenging the Juvenile Justice Board's (JJB) decision declaring him as an adult, in the murder case of a seven-year-old boy at a private school.
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Kathua Court Denies Bail To Juvenile Accused In 8-Year-Old's Rape And Murder Case
A Kathua court Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of an alleged juvenile offender, detained in the rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl.
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CBI Opposes Bail Of Juvenile Accused In Pradyuman Thakur Murder Case
The CBI today opposed in a Gurgaon court the bail plea of the 16-year-old student, accused of killing a seven-year-old boy, at the Ryan International school. Additional sessions judge Jasbir Singh Kundu fixed the matter for January 6 for arguments on the appeal filed by the accused against an order of the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) denying him ba...
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Mercedes Hit-And-Run Case: Court Seeks Reply From Police
A court in New Delhi today sought response of Delhi police on a plea of a teenager, who allegedly ran over a 32-year-old marketing executive while driving his father's Mercedes, challenging the Juvenile Justice Board's (JJB) order to try him as an adult.
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Plea Filed In Supreme Court Against New Central Law On Juveniles
A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the recently-passed juvenile law that allows delinquent minors of 16 years of age and above to be tried as adults if they commit heinous offences like rape and murder.
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How Many Nirbhayas Needed For Laws To Change: Nirbhaya's Parents
With the Supreme Court rejecting the plea against release of the juvenile convict, the parents of the December 16 gang-rape victim today said the courts have failed them and asked how many Nirbhayas would it take for the laws to change.
