In Brief
Two individuals who were juveniles when they allegedly committed offences in May 2001 were tried in adult criminal court and convicted under IPC sections 323, 324, 325, 427, and 455 (read with s. 149), receiving sentences up to three years imprisonment. They raised juvenility as a defence for the first time in the Supreme Court appeal, nearly two decades after the crime. The Court upheld the conviction as factually sound, but modified the sentence to time already served (approximately one year for one, eight months for the other) since they were now middle-aged and could not legally be detained in a remand home, making remand to the Juvenile Justice Board impractical.
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