cji: law cannotforget that jj act offenders still children
Bengaluru, Oct. 11 -- Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Saturday said that while the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 allows children aged 16 to 18 to be tried as adults for the gravest offences after a careful preliminary assessment of their capacity and circumstances, the law must not lose sight of the fact that they are still children.
"The act does not ask us to forget the harm that may have been caused. It asks us to remember that the one who caused it is still a child," the CJI said, speaking at the 'National Annual Stakeholders Consultation' organised by the apex court to mark 10 years of the act.
Organised by the court's JJ committee led by justice BV Nagarathna, in association with UNICEF, the c...
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