JUVENILE TO BE TRIED AS ADULT IN GURUGRAM SCHOOL KILLING

A sessions court on Monday dismissed the plea of a 16-year-old student, challenging the Juvenile Justice Board’s (JJB) decision declaring him as an adult, in the murder case of a seven-year-old boy at a private school in Gurugram.

Additional Sessions Judge Jasbir Singh Kundu junked the appeal of the student along with other two pleas in the case.

The court had earlier granted time till July 4 to the CBI to file a supplementary charge sheet in the murder case of a seven-yearold boy at a private school in Gurugram. Advocate Sushil Tekriwal, lawyer for the victim seven-year-old boy, had argued the JJB’s order declaring the 16-yearold accused as an adult was “wellreasoned” and there was no fault and “nothing illegal” in it.

The counsel for the a 16-yearold accused had challenged the JJB order, saying it was “bad in law” and passed without giving him proper opportunity to present his case.

Earlier, the court had barred the media from using the name of the 16-year-old juvenile accused in the case and asked it to use fictitious names instead.

While the seven-year-old victim was named “Prince” by the court, the juvenile accused was named “Bholu” and the school was referred to as “Vidyalaya”.

The JJB had on December 20 last year held that the teenager would be tried as an adult and directed his production before the Gurgaon Sessions Court.

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