Nehal Jain, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, University College of Law, Udaipur, Rajasthan
Vinay Jain, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, University College of Law, Udaipur, Rajasthan
“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”
~Isaac Asimov
Juvenile delinquency has yet again made it to the headlines for all the contentious reasons, when Vedant Agarwal, a 17-year-old drunk boy drove his father’s Porsche and killed 2 young techies in a road accident. Famously known as the ‘PUNE PORSCHE CASE’, which has significantly brought back to light the apertures of the JJ Act 2015.
This happened when the Juvenile Justice Board rejected the Pune police’s request to try the accused as an adult and released the accused on bail within 15 hrs of his arrest on conditions as ignorant and vague as writing a 300-word long essay. The board however retracted the decision, after a huge public backlash on the bail order, by sending him to the remand home till 5th June. Though he wasn’t declared innocent, the news of his release sparked debates.
This order of the board was subsequently declared illegal and ultra vires by the Bombay High Court which further ordered the release of the juvenile from the observation home.
This article aims to critically discuss the provisions of the JJ Act concerning child in conflict with law.
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