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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