Upendra Nath Chaubey vs State Of U.P. And Another
2021 Latest Caselaw 4582 ALL

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
 
 

										A.F.R.
 
Court No. - 68
 

 
Case :- CRIMINAL REVISION No. - 1140 of 2016
 

 
Revisionist :- Upendra Nath Chaubey
 
Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another
 
Counsel for Revisionist :- Lok Nath Shukla
 
Counsel for Opposite Party :- Govt.Advocate,Manoj Yadav
 

 
Hon'ble Gautam Chowdhary,J.

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8& ekuuh; mPpre U;k;ky; }kjk Satya Deo @ Bhoorey Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh 2020 10 SCC (Cri) 61 esa mfYyf[kr rF; fuEuor~ gSa %&

"Thus, in respect of pending cases, Section 20 authoritatively commands that the court must at any stage, even post the judgment by the trial court when the matter is pending in appeal, revision or otherwise, consider and decide upon the question of juvenility. Juvenility is determined by the age on the date of commission of the offence. The factum that the juvenile was an adult on the date of enforcement of the 2000 Act or subsequently had attained adulthood would not matter. If the accused was juvenile, the court would, even when maintaining conviction, send the case to the Board to issue direction and order in accordance with the provisions of the 2000 Act."

9& blh izdkj Amit Singh Vs. State of Maharashtra & Anr. 011 0 Supreme(SC) 740 esa mfYyf[kr rF; fuEuor~ gSa %&

"After the judgment of the Constitution Bench in Pratap Singh (supra), this Court in the case of Hari Ram (supra) considered the above question of law in the light of Amendment Act 33 of 2006 in the provisions of the Act which substituted Section 2(l) to define a "juvenile in conflict with law" as a "juvenile who is alleged to have committed an offence and has not completed 18 years of age as on the date of commission of such offence". By way of Amendment Act 33/2006, Section 7A was inserted which reads as follows:-

"7A. Procedure to be followed when claim of juvenility is raised before any court.--(1) Whenever a claim of juvenility is raised before any court or a court is of the opinion that an accused person was a juvenile on the date of commission of the offence, the court shall make an inquiry, take such evidence as may be necessary (but not an affidavit) so as to determine the age of such person, and shall record a finding whether the person is a juvenile or a child or not, stating his age as nearly as may be: Provided that a claim of juvenility may be raised before any court and it shall be recognized at any stage, even after final disposal of the case, and such claim shall be determined in terms of the provisions contained in this Act and the rules made thereunder, even if the juvenile has ceased to be so on or before the date of commencement of this Act.

(2) If the court finds a person to be a juvenile on the date of commission of the offence under sub-section (1), it shall forward the juvenile to the Board for passing appropriate orders and the sentence, if any, passed by a court shall be deemed to have no effect. "

It is clear from the above provision, namely, Section 7A the claim of juvenility to be raised before any court at any stage, even after final disposal of the case and sets out the procedure which the court is required to adopt, when such claim of juvenility is raised. Apart from the aforesaid provisions of the Act as amended, and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Rules, 2007, (in short `the Rules') Rule 98, in particular, has to be read along with Section 20 of the Act as amended by the Amendment Act, 2006 which provides that even after disposal of cases of juveniles in conflict with law, the State Government or the Board could, either suo motu or on an application made for the purpose, review the case of juvenile, determine the juvenility and pass an appropriate order under Section 64 of the Act for immediate release of the juvenile whose period of detention had exceeded the maximum period provided in Section 15 of the Act i.e. 3 years. All the above relevant provisions including the amended provisions of the Act and the Rules have been elaborately considered by this Court in Hari Ram (supra). "

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