India, June 26 -- A Mumbai sessions court has rejected the juvenility plea of the accused in the murder of HDFC Bank vice-president Siddharth Kiran Sanghvi in 2018 after an ossification test placed the former's age between 25 and 28. It said that the school records Sarfaraz Shaheed Shaikh relied upon to claim he was a minor were not genuine.

Shaikh claimed he was born on July 20, 2001, and was 17 years, one month, and 16 days old when the offence was allegedly committed on September 5, 2018. He sought the transfer of the case to the Juvenile Justice Board under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

The plea was filed after the murder trial commenced, with the prosecution examining two witnesses. The state opp...