‘Trial court erred in awarding sentence under the Juvenile Act’
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday set aside the life imprisonment awarded to two children by a trial court here for killing a five-year-old boy in 1999, saying the court had erred in awarding the sentence against the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000.
According to the Act, a juvenile or a child means a person who has not completed 18 years of age, and the convicted children were below that age at the time of the crime.
“We quash the sentence awarded to Amit and Ravinder by the trial court as we have found that they have already completed the period of more than three years of imprisonment,” a Division Bench comprising Justice Reva Khetrapal and Mukul Mudgal said.
According to the Act, the period of detention provided for a child in a special home is three years, and it shall not exceed in any case.
The two had spent more than five years in jail.
The Court later set the two free.
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