Supreme Court of India

Pratap Singh v. State of Jharkhand and Anr.

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Reported as [2005] 1 S.C.R. 1019

Bench N. Santosh Hegde, S.N. Variava, B.P. Singh, H.K. Sema and B S.B. Sinha JJ.

Decided 2 February 2005

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From the headnote

Juvenile Justice Act, 1986-Sections 2(h), 3, 18, 26 and 32 Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000-Sections 2(k), 20 and 69. Juvenile offender-Age-Determination-Reckoning date-Held: The reckoning date for determining the age of the Juvenile offender is the date of offence and not the date when he is produced before the Authority/Court. 2000 Act-Applicability of-To the cases initiated under 1986 Act, pending on the date of enforcement of 2000 Act-Held: The Act of 2000 would be applicable to such cases only when the accused had not attained 18 years of age on the date of

Authorities it was built on

2002 Bhavnagar University v. Palitana Sugar Mill Pvt, Ltd. and Ors. cited by 69
2004 Union of India v. Naveen Jindal and Anr. cited by 19
1985 Narcinva V. Kamat and Anr. Etc. v. Alfredo Antonio Doe Martins and Ors. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2017 Ms. Eera through Dr. Manjula Krippendorf v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) & Anr. relied on
2013 Jitendra Singh @ Babboo Singh & Anr. v. State of U.P. relied on
2011 Union of India and Ors. v. M/s Nitdip Textile Processors Pvt. Ltd. and Another relied on
2025 Om Prakash @ Israel @ Raju @ Raju Das v. Union of India and Another referred to
2023 Narayan Chetanram Chaudhary v. The State of Maharashtra referred to
2022 Vinod Katara v. State of Uttar Pradesh referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2022 Barun Chandra Thakur v. Master Bholu & Anr. referred to
2020 Satya Deo @ Bhoorey v. State of Uttar Pradesh referred to
2020 Union of India and Others v. Agricas Llp and Others Etc. referred to
2020 Indore Development Authority v. Manoharlal & Ors. Etc. referred to
2017 Vijendra Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh referred to
2016 Mumtaz @ Muntyaz v. State of U.P. (now Uttarakhand) referred to
2013 Bharat Bhushan v. State of Himachal Pradesh referred to
2012 Abuzar Hossain @ Gulam Hossain v. State of West Bengal referred to
2012 Ashwani Kumar Saxena v. State of M.P. referred to
2011 Amit Singh v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. referred to
2015 Mohan Lal v. State of Rajasthan mentioned
2013 Suresh Kumar Koushal and Another v. Naz Foundation and Others mentioned
2013 Subodh Nath and Anr. v. State of Tripura not applicable

Of those, 3 relied on · 14 referred to · 2 mentioned · 1 not applicable

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