Case Name : Ajeet Gurjar vs State of Madhya Pradesh
Case Reference: (0000) 0 SCR 00 :
Neutral Citation: 2023 INSC 875
Case Number: Crl A 3023/2023
Court: Supreme Court
Bench: 02
Coram: Abhay S Oka (Author), Pankaj Mithal
Date: 26.09.2023
If the Children’s court decides that there is no need to try the child as an adult, it MUST conduct assessment of age of the child, as if it (the children’s court) was the Board under section 18. Para 10
Section 19 is mandatory. May should be read as shall.
Section 18 is only preliminary assessment. The order under section 18(3) is not a final adjudication on the whether the child should be tried as an adult. Para 12
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