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.
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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