India, Nov. 1 -- The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a petition from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking transfer of the trial in the murder of a seven-year-old student of a Gurugram school to a the court of a special judge in Panchkula.

The CBI has an exclusive court of the special judge at Panchkula with jurisdiction over all of Haryana, and contended that since the CBI investigated the case, the Panchkula court has exclusive jurisdiction to try it. The CBI's petition has been pending since 2018.

The bench of justice Manisha Batra held that under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015... the trial of a child directed to be tried as an adult must be held by a children's court is a sin...