SWATI MALIWAL JAIHIND CHAIRPERSON DELHI COMMISSION FOR WOMEN Vs. RAJU THROUGH JUVENILE JUSTICE BOARD & ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Application(s) for permission to file special leave petitions is/are granted. Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner. No ground for interference is made out to exercise our jurisdiction under Art. 136 of the Constitution of India. The special leave petitions are dismissed. Pending application(s) stand(s) disposed of.

(2.) Sec. 15 of the Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (for short 'the Act') provides for orders that may be passed by the Juvenile Justice Board regarding a juvenile who has committed an offence. The most stringent of the orders that can be passed under Sec. 15 is directing the juvenile to be sent to a Special Home for a maximum period of three years.

(3.) Contending that the scheme of the Act is silent about the mechanism to ascertain the reformation of the juveniles sent to the Special Home, particularly, the juveniles who had committed heinous crimes like rape, before releasing them from the Special Home and apprehending that release of such juveniles at the end of the stay in the Special Home would be a menace to the society, the present petition is filed seeking a writ, order or direction: