Juvenile Justice Board

Back from adult prison, Bihar minors arrested in police raids on Muslim homes post CAA protests tell of maltreatment

Bihar Police passed minors off as adults in the First Information Report (FIR). Which meant they spent a month in an Aurangabad prison with hardened criminals before they were moved to a juvenile home on 23 January.

Bihar Police arrests 13 minors from Aurangabad during CAA protests, passes them off as 'adults' in FIR

Bihar police have arrested 13 minors and identified them as 'adults' over anti-Citizenship Amenment Act protests on 21 December 2019 in town of Aurangabad turned violent. All arrested are Muslim youths. Firstpost had earlier reported that Bihar Police had altered the age of two minor boys and identified them as adults in the FIR.

SC lawyer writes to Patna HC about minors booked as adults in Bihar's Aurangabad after Firstpost report exposes state police action

A Supreme Court lawyer in Patna has written to the Chief Justice of Patna High Court, to take cognisance of what's happening in Aurangabad, Bihar after a Firstpost article pointed out that the Bihar Police had arrested 13 minors during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests

Kathua rape case: Teenage accused to be tried before Juvenile Justice Board today; plea challenging his minor status pending in HC

The trial against a juvenile accused in the rape and murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua last year will begin on Monday as the Jammu and Kashmir High Court refused to entertain a plea for an early hearing of a petition challenging his status as a minor, officials said.

Medical examination of minor girl gang-raped in Dehradun school by fellow students confirms sexual assault

The Uttarakhand education department announced it will cancel the licence and no objection certificate issued to the Dehradun school

Madhya Pradesh: Juvenile board sentences 14-year-old boy to two years in remand home in Seoni district for raping minor girl

The court ordered to send the boy to a remand home in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni district for serving the sentence.

Ryan International murder case: SC rejects bail plea of juvenile accused of killing 7-year-old boy in Gurgaon

The Supreme Court has rejected the bail plea of 16-year-old boy who was accused of killing a 7-year-old boy in a private school in Gurgaon

Uttarakhand Police arrests five minors who gangraped 8-yr-old girl in Sahaspur after watching porn; accused sent to juvenile home

Five boys allegedly raped an eight-year-old girl in their neighbourhood when her parents were not home in Sahaspur, the police said on Tuesday.

Juveniles at crossroads: Cops ignore confidentiality clause in JJ Act, deny reformed youths chance to rebuild life

Why is India failing its juveniles? National statistical data indicates that even juveniles who have been found to have reformed are not being given a fair chance to enter mainstream life

Class 9 student stabbed to death in school washroom in Vadodara; police suspect senior behind murder

In a chilling reminder of the murder of a seven-year-old boy in a Gurugram school, a Class 9 student was found murdered at his school in Gujarat's Vadodara.