Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 949 · Decided 12 September 2022
Vinod Katara v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 949 · [2022] 9 S.C.R. 836
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 121/2022
- Decided
- 12 September 2022
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, J.B. PARDIWALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 39, 136; Juvenile Justice Act Section 94, 32, 39, 20
Headnote
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000: ss. 3, 7A, 16, 20 - Applicability of the 2000 Act - Plea of juvenility at belated stage - Determination of juvenility - On facts, writ applicant while undergoing sentence of life imprisonment subjected to medical examination by the State in pursuant of the judgment by the High Court wherein the High Court directed the Juvenile Justice Boards to hold an enquiry for determination of the age of prisoners languishing in jails who claimed to have been juveniles in conflict with the law
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