Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 177 · Decided 12 February 2008
Balu @ Bakthvatchalu v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 177 · [2008] 2 S.C.R. 756
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 295/2008
- Decided
- 12 February 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, V.S. SIRPURKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Constitution; Juvenile Justice Act
Headnote
Juvenile Justice Act, 1986 - Age of delinquent juvenile - Determination of, on the date of commission of offence - C Appeal before Supreme Court - Trial judge directed to hold enquiry as regards the age of juvenile on the date of commission of offence - Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2006. D The question which arose for consideration in this appeal was whether the appellant who was prosecuted for commission of offence of murder under section 302 IPC was a juvenile on the date of occurrence of incident. E Allowing the appeal and
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