Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 43 · Decided 7 January 2025
Om Prakash @ Israel @ Raju @ Raju Das v. Union of India and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 43 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 362
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 4229/2024
- Decided
- 7 January 2025
- Bench
- M.M. SUNDRESH, ARAVIND KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Juvenile Justice Act Section 9(2)
Headnote
Issue arose as regards plea of juvenility raised u/s.9(2) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 - s.9(2) - Plea of juvenility - Appellant charged homicide amounting to murder, for incident occurred in 1994 - On recording of statements in 2001, the appellant stated his age as 20 years - After conviction, the appellant raised the plea of juvenility during the hearing on sentence that he was around 17 years at the time of
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