Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 206 · Decided 2 April 2013
Union of India & ORS. v. Ex-Gnr Ajeet Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 206 · [2013] 5 S.C.R. 620
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4465/2005
- Decided
- 2 April 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 464; Constitution; Juvenile Justice Act Section 6
Headnote
Army Act, 1950- ss.39(a) and 52(a) -Army Rules, 1951 c - rr. 65, 72 and 79 - Court martial proceedings for absence without leave, for theft of ammunitions and for possession of counterfeit sea/ - Punishment of dismissal from service and 7 years RI - Writ petition - High Court held that entire stood vitiated as the same could not 0 have been held for the offences which the delinquent had committed as a juvenile - Held: In view of the Juvenile Justice Act, the delinquent could not have been tried in Court Martial for the offences which he had committed as a juvenile - But each
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