Two juveniles...

“We will know the grounds only after the sentencing,” he said.

Another juvenile, who is older than 16 years, is facing trial in another court. The JJB hears cases against people who are below the age of 16. The maximum punishment under the Juvenile Justice Act is three years.

On August 14, 2019, the court of the additional district judge (ADJ) of Alwar acquitted six men accused of lynching 55-year-old Pehlu Khan, who belonged to Haryana’s Nuh district. Vipin Yadav, Ravindra Yadav, Kalu Ram Yadav, Dayanand Yadav, Yogesh Khati and Bhim Rathi received the benefit of doubt after having been tried on charges of murder, rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, wrongful restrain, damage to property and theft.

The state government has filed an appeal against the ruling in the Rajasthan high court.

Khan was attacked on the Delhi-jaipur highway near Behror in Alwar district on suspicion of smuggling cows when he was transporting cattle bought from a weekly market in Jaipur to his home in Nuh with his two sons. He died in hospital on April 3, 2017.

Additional public prosecutor in the ADJ’S court, Yogendra Khatana, said he was unaware of the evidence used in the hearing before the JJB. “I can comment on the conviction only after going through the order,” he added. “Maybe the lapses in the main case were addressed during trial in the juvenile court.”

The defence counsel in the ADJ’S court, Hukum Chand Sharma, said the judgment of the JJB juvenile court will have no bearing on the main case, in which his clients have been acquitted.

In Jaipur, additional advocate general RP Singh, who will argue on behalf of the government in the high court, called the JJB’S ruling an important development. “We will definitely use it during the hearing of the appeal ,”

DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday extended till March 16 the interim protection from arrest granted to civil rights activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence case. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Indira Banerjee said it would hear on March 16 the appeals filed by Navlakha and Teltumbde against a Bombay High Court order of last month rejecting their anticipatory bail pleas. The high court, while refusing to grant anticipatory bail to Navlakha and Teltumbde on February 14, had extended their interim protection from arrest for a period of four weeks . Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and A M Singhvi, appearing for the activists, told the apex court that protection granted to them by the high court would expire on March 14 and the top court should extend it. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the bench that probe in the Bhima Koregaon violence case has been transferred to the NIA. “We have not received any such notice,” Singhvi said.to this, the bench told Sibal and Singhvi that they can implead the NIA as a party in the case.