SURYA PRAKASH TRIPATHI Vs. STATE OF U.P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the applicant and the learned AGA for the State.

(2.) BY the present application the applicant, who is the informant of case crime No. 236 of 2012, police station Shivli, district Kanpur Dehat, under Section 304 -A IPC, has challenged the order dated 3rd June, 2014, passed by Juvenile Justice Board, Kanpur Dehat in case No. 245 of 2012, by which pending determination of the question of juvenility the Board has granted interim bail to the accused, who have been arrayed as respondents 2 to 4 to the application.

(3.) THE submission of learned counsel for the applicant is that for grant of bail, under Section 12 of the 'Act', the Board must, prima facie, satisfy itself that the accused produced before him is a juvenile. It has been submitted that no satisfaction has been recorded by the Board with regards to the claim of juvenility of the accused and yet the Board has released the accused on an interim bail pending consideration of the bail application, particularly when no report of District Probation Officer has been received as yet. It has thus been submitted that the order passed by the Board is without jurisdiction and deserves correction by this Court.