Supreme Court of India

Shah Nawaj v. State of U.P. & Anr.

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Reported as [2011] 9 S.C.R. 859

Bench P. Sathasivam and Dr. B.S. Chauhan JJ.

Decided 5 August 2011

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What the Court ordered

We hold that from the acceptable records, the date of birth of the appellant is 18.06.1989, the Additional Sessions Judge and the High Court committed an error in taking contrary view.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Juvenile Justice/Care and Protection of Children) Rules, 2007 - Claim of juvenility - FIR lodged against appellant for commission of offence u/ss. 302 and 307 /PC - Application c filed by appellant's mother before the Juvenile Justice Board that he was a minor at the time of the alleged occurrence on .. basis of her son's school leaving certificate - Application ,> allowed - Session Judge set aside the order passed by the Board - Said 'order upheld by the High Court on the ground of absence of any matriculation or equivalent certificate - On ,appeal held: Documents furnished-mark sheet of

Authorities it was built on

2000 Arnit Das v. State of Bihar cited by 15
2006 Ravinder Singh Gorkhi v. State of U.P. cited by 14

Where later benches applied it

2022 Vinod Katara v. State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2013 Bharat Bhushan v. State of Himachal Pradesh relied on
2023 Pawan Kumar v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2019 Gaurav Kumar @ Monu v. The State of Haryana 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

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to

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