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The Bombay High Court today granted bail to the juvenile accused in the Pune road accident case. The court ordered the teenager to be released and placed in the care of his paternal aunt. The court also ordered that sessions with a psychologist continue for the minor. “We grant the petition and order their release. The CCL (child in conflict with the law) will be placed under the care and custody of the plaintiff (paternal aunt),” the court said. The court found that the arrest warrant against JJB was illegal and issued without jurisdiction. The child's paternal aunt filed a petition in the Supreme Court alleging that the teenager was illegally detained in a surveillance center. The court explained: “CCL did not count among the immediate reactions to the accident, the unusual reactions and the public protest”.

“CCL is under 18 years old. His age should be taken into consideration,” the bench said. Courts are bound by the law and the goals and objectives of the Juvenile Justice Act and must treat juveniles who come into conflict with the law differently than adults, regardless of the seriousness of the crime, the court said. He said: CCL should be looked at differently. the HC said. Last week, Justices Bharati Dangar and Manjusha Deshpande had said that sending the minor to a monitoring center after granting him bail would defeat the purpose of bail. “Two people were killed. There was trauma but the child (boy) was also traumatized,” the court said. The Supreme Court has reviewed police practices in detaining minors in observation centers after the teenager was released on bail in the high-profile Porsche accident. The court stressed that the police would not seek the intervention of the higher court to revoke the bail granted by the Juvenile Judicial Board (JJB). Instead, police requested a change in the bail order, which resulted in the minor being taken into custody and placed in a monitoring facility. The court expressed concerns about this procedure. What kind of detention is this? What is the power of arrest?

Although the minor was released on bail, he was removed from family custody and placed in an observation home, the judges emphasized. “This is a man who is out on bail but has now been locked up in the observatory. Isn't that a prison sentence? We want to know the source of your authority,” said the Supreme Court. On May 19, two IT professionals were killed in an incident in Pune when drunk youths were driving a Porsche at high speed. The case received national attention, especially after a member of the Juvenile Justice Board spoke out. LN Dunwade released the boy on bail with minor conditions, including a 300-word essay on road safety. Last week, the Pune court granted bail to the father of a minor involved in several cases. Despite being released on bail, he remains in custody on other charges, including falsifying blood samples for an alcohol test and falsely admitting his driver was responsible for an accident. The court granted bail to five more people, including the owner and manager of two bars, accused of serving alcohol to underage patrons.

The trial revealed several allegations. The main claim is related to an accident, the remaining charges are related to the father of a minor and the bar association. These charges include allowing a minor to drive without a valid license and consumption of alcohol by a minor. The father was charged under section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act (JJ Act) for child abuse and the bar staff under section 77 for supplying drugs to a minor. Advocate Prashant Patil, representing the boy's father, confirmed the bail decision. JJ He stated that section 75 of the Act was not judgmental and did not warrant arrest.