The Juvenile Justice Board has held the minor guilty of illegally confining and robbing a carpenter on December 16 night before allegedly participating in the gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi.
The Pune police chief told reporters that an internal inquiry has pointed to lapses on the part of some cops while registering the case and action will be taken against them.
The verdict in the December 16 gangrape case involving a minor was on Thursday deferred to August 5 by the Juvenile Justice Board.
"He, during questioning, did not show any remorse about the incident. He was having dinner when our team apprehended him," Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey said.
As the country remembered the braveheart who was brutally gang-raped on December 16 exactly a year ago, the juvenile who escaped with lighter punishment after being convicted in the case spent the entire day watching reports flashed by the media on the incident.
The judgment in the December 16 gang rape case involving a minor was on Monday deferred till August 19 by the Juvenile Justice Board pursuant to a direction of the Supreme Court.
The boy wanted to check whether it could be traced back to him or not, police said.
The juvenile's father had called the doctor and offered him allurements to replace the blood samples, Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar claimed at a press conference.
The court imposed a cost of Rs 21,000 for "wasting court's time" in baseless litigation.
The final report against a juvenile who was also apprehended in the case will be submitted to the Juvenile Justice Board in Rajouri, a spokesperson of the federal agency said.
The top court also held that medical opinion regarding the age of an accused cannot be 'brushed aside' in the absence of statutory proof on the same issue.
Police arrested two persons after a woman travelling on a scooter with her husband was fatally knocked down allegedly by a BMW car in Mumbai's Worli area in the early hours of Sunday, an official said.
Shocked by the information that the Juvenile Justice Board at Pune disposed of as many as 133 cases involving juvenile offenders in a single day, the Bombay high court has directed the principal judge of Pune district court to call for records and re-examine the cases.
Four youths accused of kidnapping and killing teenager Adnan Patrawala in Mumbai in 2007 were on Monday acquitted by a local court on account of lack of evidence, a verdict dubbed by the victim's family as "shocking".
He, however, cited the sensitivity of information due to the ongoing probe into the matter to decline to share more details, sources said.
The bench said it has received some "conflicting reports" on the issue but it do not intend to comment on them at this stage.
The juvenile court directed his parents to execute a personal bond of Rs 25,000 each with a surety of like amount.
The police said they have also urged the Board to form a medical panel to conduct a bone ossification test that will verify the age of the youth.
The Sub-divisional magistrate, who had recorded the statement of the December 16 Delhi gang rape victim, on Wednesday testified before the Juvenile Justice Board in New Delhi.
In August last year, six men who were accused of lynching Khan were acquitted by a lower court in Alwar and this is the first conviction in the case.
The juvenile convict in the December 16 gang rape was on Sunday released and sent to an NGO at an undisclosed destination with police no longer guarding him.
The family of Delhi gang rape victim has sought an appointment with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to apprise her of their woes and demands.
The family of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Monday termed the Juvenile Justice Board's decision of ruling the sixth accused in the case as minor as unfortunate and said that they would challenge it in court. "The family would consult legal experts and challenge the matter in the relevant court," the brother of the girl told PTI over the phone from Delhi.
A special NIA court on Wednesday convicted 10 persons in connection with the serial blasts that took place in 2013 at the venue in Patna of a political rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was then the chief minister of Gujarat.
This, asserts Minnie Vaid, is hardly a new phenomenon-- entitled minors getting behind the wheel of super expensive cars mowing down innocent victims in a drunken stupor and getting away with it scot-free!
During interrogation, the boy revealed that he had destroyed the instrument, the Subscriber Identification Module card and the clips. He, however, did not answer questions on where he dumped them.
'With increasing numbers of juveniles committing heinous crimes, we believe such juveniles must go into the adult system and be punished,' Minister Maneka Gandhi tells Rashme Sehgal.
The Delhi police on Thursday pleaded with a court to cancel the bail given by a juvenile justice board to a teenager who had allegedly run over a 32-year-old man with his father's Mercedes leading to his death, saying the relief was granted wrongly.
"Collective conscience of the society shaken. In our society, minor girls are worshipped as goddess," the POCSO court said.
On April 3, the top court had taken suo motu (on its own) cognisance of the condition of children in protection, juvenile and foster or kinship homes across the country amid the coronavirus outbreak and had issued directions to the state governments and various other authorities to protect them.
The CBI has given a clean chit to the arrested bus conductor in connection with the case.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan is expected to deliver its judgment on the pleas of Mukesh, 29, Pawan Gupta, 22, and Vinay Sharma, 23.
A shoddily drafted application for birth certificate was the loose string that led to the unravelling of the conspiracy to proclaim one of those accused in the 2018 gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua as a juvenile.
A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and N R Borkar said Wankhede shall appear before the Thane police on February 23 (Wednesday) pursuant to the summons issued to him and extend his full cooperation with the investigation.
Additional Sessions Judge Jasbir Singh Kundu dismissed the plea of the accused saying the stage was not fit for granting bail.
Sources privy to the proceedings said the board pulled up the parents of the boy, who has just turned major, saying they had promoted his habit of driving even when he was minor.
A teenager, who had allegedly run over a 32-year-old man with his father's Mercedes, on Tuesday succeeded in securing bail in his third attempt.
The charge sheet was committed to sessions court in Kathua which has fixed January 24 as the next date of hearing in the case.
