SC reserves order on maintainability of PIL on juvenile law
15 Aug 2013 11:11 PM GMT
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on maintainability of senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking fresh interpretation of the term juvenile. A bench headed by Chief Justice of Indai P Sathasivam said, ‘We will first decide the maintainability of your special leave petition and if we agree, only then, we will hear you on merits’. The court also said that the order would be pronounced within a week.
The court reserved the order after Swamy clarified to the bench that his petition was not individual-centric and the reference of the juvenile, who is one of the accused in the 16 December gangrape case, in his plea was merely an illustration.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had asked Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy to inform the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) not to pronounce its verdict on the juvenile, alleged to have been involved in brutal gangrape of a paramedical girl on 16 December, till it decides the petition seeking fresh interpretation of the term juvenile. Following the direction of the apex court, the JJB had defrred the judgment.
The court reserved the order after Swamy clarified to the bench that his petition was not individual-centric and the reference of the juvenile, who is one of the accused in the 16 December gangrape case, in his plea was merely an illustration.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had asked Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy to inform the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) not to pronounce its verdict on the juvenile, alleged to have been involved in brutal gangrape of a paramedical girl on 16 December, till it decides the petition seeking fresh interpretation of the term juvenile. Following the direction of the apex court, the JJB had defrred the judgment.
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