In Brief
A person convicted and sentenced to death challenged this sentence claiming to have been a juvenile at the time of the offence, which would disqualify a death sentence under the Juvenile Justice Act. The claim had been rejected earlier by the Magistrate, High Court, and Supreme Court in a review petition. The Supreme Court held that once a plea of juvenility is rejected across multiple court proceedings up to the Supreme Court, it cannot be re-agitated in fresh applications. The petition was dismissed as the petitioner could not repeatedly raise the same issue after judicial determination.
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