The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) on Wednesday rejected five applications moved by the counsel of the juvenile in the murder of seven-year-old Ryan School student Pradyuman Thakur. The board also reserved its decision on the Juvenile whether the accused will be treated as a juvenile or an adult. The verdict will be delivered on Friday next.
Besides, the juvenile board will also hear arguments on the teenager's bail plea moved by his counsel on the same day. The bail application was moved before the board on Tuesday.
On Wednesday the Juvenile board announced its decisions on five applications which were pending before the board and the arguments on the pleas had taken place on December 8.
In its verdict, the Juvenile court allowed the CBI to seek fingerprints of the 16-year-old accused and ordered the investigation agency that they can do so on December 19. The CBI's plea was opposed by the accused counsel.
The board has also denied to provide the copy of the sociological and psychological and experts’ reports of the teenager to his lawyers and told them that the concerned counsels can read the entire report in the courtroom on Friday and on the same day they can have arguments on the report.
In another application, the teenager's lawyer pleaded before the court that the board should postpone the current hearing whether the boy is a juvenile or not. However, the same was rejected by the board.
The juvenile board has also dismissed the application in which the counsels of the teenager alleged that the CBI in their proceeding revealing the identity of the boy and in another plea, the CBI had asked birth certificate of the juvenile. In their reply, the counsel of the teenager said they will submit the certificate in the Sessions court instead of the CBI the board rejected the same.
On December 6 the teenager was produced before the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Board by the Central Bureau of Investigation team after his 14-day judicial custody. The accused boy will be kept in judicial custody until December 20.