PAWAN Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This revision petition has been preferred against the impugned order dated 09.05.2019, passed by the Ld. Sessions Judge, Faridabad, vide which the appeal preferred on behalf of the petitioner, who is a juvenile, against the previous order dated 20.04.2019, passed by the Ld. Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board, Faridabad, seeking release of the petitioner on bail, were dismissed.

(2.) Ld. Counsel for the petitioner has contended that the petitioner would have been entitled to bail automatically under Section 12(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (for short 'the Act'), and the only circumstance to deny such bail could have been covered by the Proviso to Section 12(1) of the Act, which is set out as below:

(3.) However, in the impugned order dated 20.04.2019 passed by the Ld. Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board, Faridabad, it was observed, inter alia: