07/09/2026
Recently, the Supreme Court held that a juvenility claim cannot be rejected merely because it is raised after a criminal case has attained finality, setting aside the conviction of an accused after the Juvenile Justice Board found that he was below 18 years of age when the offence was committed.
The Division Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Shree Chandrashekhar stressed that courts must give the Juvenile Justice Act a purposive, child-centric interpretation, observing that when the law’s mandate is overlooked, “the child becomes a casualty.”
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