The Mumbai city Juvenile Justice Board as well as a children’s court directed that he be tried as an adult under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, 2015. When is a child tried as an adult? AdvertisingThe Juvenile Justice Act of 2000 was amended in 2015 with a provision allowing for Children in Conflict with Law (CCL) to be tried as adults under certain circumstances. The High Court said that neither report brought out “any exceptional circumstances” to compel the juvenile to face trial as an adult. One of the court’s key observations was that “essentially, the trial in the regular court is offence-oriented; in the juvenile court, it is offender-oriented.

Source: Indian Express July 21, 2019 21:20 UTC