JYOTI PRAKASH RAI Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Appellant herein is said to be a delinquent juvenile. He was accused of commission of an offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code for killing one of his school mates. He is said to have stabbed the deceased several times. The incident took place on 12.05.2000. His age was estimated at about 17 years as on the said date by the learned Magistrate before whom he was produced.

(3.) Section 20 of the 2000 Act, as it stood then, reads as under: