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As per case facts the Juvenile Justice Board initially declared the accused charged with murder an adult but the Sessions Judge and High Court reversed this declaring him a juvenile
...delinquent based on school records and subsequently granted him bail the complainant the victim's mother appealed both the juvenility declaration and the grant of bail The question arose whether the High Court was correct in reversing the Juvenile Justice Board's finding of non-juvenility by relying on school certificates over a subsequent medical assessment and whether the grant of bail to the juvenile in conflict with law was justified Finally the Supreme Court dismissed the appeals upholding the finding of juvenility based on the statutory preference for school certificates over medical opinion finding the original rejection of school records by the Juvenile Justice Board flawed and refused to interfere with the bail order given the juvenile had been on bail for over three years without misuse
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Preliminary assessment into heinous offences by Board.