The police decide whether a young person in custody will be treated as a child or an adult. Placing discretion with them is based on the erroneous presumption that age is clear.
Co-author Enakshi Ganguly and other panellists appeared to have lost all control over their audience, which seemed adamant about escalating the situation to a shouting match.
Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary was released last month after an SC order affirmed that he was a juvenile in September 1994, when he was arrested for the murders of seven people in Pune.
The accused was sentenced to death for the 2017 rape and murder of a four-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh. SC has upheld his conviction, but set aside his death sentence.
The decision came from the parliamentary panel in response to the government asserting that existing laws are adequate to deal with juveniles committing heinous crimes.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
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