{"id":214093,"date":"2019-04-30T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=214093"},"modified":"2019-05-07T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:56:15","slug":"del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Delhi High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>Chander Shekhar, J. refused to interfere\u00a0with the order of the Juvenile Justice Board whereby it had directed that the two children in conflict with the law\u00a0in the present cause shall not be treated as adults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petitioner was the father of the deceased, Mandeep. An FIR was registered under Sections 363, 302, 201 and 34 IPC in connection with Mandeep&#8217;s murder. After going through the material on record including the\u00a0<em>preliminary assessment reports\u00a0<\/em>prepared b experts, the JJ Board passed the order to treat the children in conflict with law as children and were ordered to be tried before the JJ Board as children. The petitioner challenged the order of the JJ Board, but the Additional Sessions Judge upheld the order. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner filed the present revision petition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perusing the record, as well as relevant sections the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, the High Court was of the view that order of the JJ Board did not require interference. Discussing Section 15 and the proviso thereto, the court observed:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;There is no doubt that the JJ Board may seek the opinion of an expert regarding the mental and physical capacity of CCL to commit an offence and it is not necessary that if an expert opined that the mental and physical capacity of CCL and his ability to understand the consequence of the offence are positive, then the JJ Board is bound by the expert opinion. It is well within the jurisdiction of the JJ Board to agree or disagree with the preliminary assessment report of the CCL submitted by such a psychologist to the JJ Board.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Having regard to the facts of the present case, it was held that the JJ Board had applied its mind before coming to the conclusion that the two children in conflict shall not be treated as adults. In such view of the matter, the petition was dismissed.[Pradeep Kumar v. State (NCT of Delhi), <a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/3v7E5u85\"><b>2019 SCC OnLine Del 8251<\/b><\/a>, decided on 15-04-2019]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court:\u00a0Chander Shekhar, J. refused to interfere\u00a0with the order of the Juvenile Justice Board whereby it had directed that the two <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[16231,2554,35106,2948],"class_list":["post-214093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-expert-opinion","tag-Jurisdiction","tag-juvenile-justice-board","tag-murder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Delhi High Court:\u00a0Chander Shekhar, J. refused to interfere\u00a0with the order of the Juvenile Justice Board whereby it had directed that the two\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-30T04:00:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-05-07T07:56:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Delhi-HC.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1329\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"888\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bhumika Indulia\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\"},\"headline\":\"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-30T04:00:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-05-07T07:56:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":357,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"expert opinion\",\"Jurisdiction\",\"Juvenile Justice Board\",\"murder\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Case Briefs\",\"High Courts\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/\",\"name\":\"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult | SCC Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-30T04:00:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-05-07T07:56:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/30\\\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"SCC Times\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\",\"name\":\"Bhumika Indulia\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84c1b51748d0297cf12e5a898eccb7bd3eb5f0ab4ae8e275e2e65c4c83f84740?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84c1b51748d0297cf12e5a898eccb7bd3eb5f0ab4ae8e275e2e65c4c83f84740?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84c1b51748d0297cf12e5a898eccb7bd3eb5f0ab4ae8e275e2e65c4c83f84740?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Bhumika Indulia\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/author\\\/editor_1\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult | SCC Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult","og_description":"Delhi High Court:\u00a0Chander Shekhar, J. refused to interfere\u00a0with the order of the Juvenile Justice Board whereby it had directed that the two","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/","og_site_name":"SCC Times","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/","article_published_time":"2019-04-30T04:00:52+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-05-07T07:56:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1329,"height":888,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Delhi-HC.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bhumika Indulia","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bhumika Indulia","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/"},"author":{"name":"Bhumika Indulia","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a"},"headline":"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult","datePublished":"2019-04-30T04:00:52+00:00","dateModified":"2019-05-07T07:56:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/"},"wordCount":357,"commentCount":0,"keywords":["expert opinion","Jurisdiction","Juvenile Justice Board","murder"],"articleSection":["Case Briefs","High Courts"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/","name":"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult | SCC Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-04-30T04:00:52+00:00","dateModified":"2019-05-07T07:56:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/30\/del-hc-jj-board-not-bound-by-expert-opinion-in-preliminary-assessment-may-disagree-with-the-report-and-not-treat-ccl-as-adult\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/","name":"SCC Times","description":"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a","name":"Bhumika Indulia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84c1b51748d0297cf12e5a898eccb7bd3eb5f0ab4ae8e275e2e65c4c83f84740?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84c1b51748d0297cf12e5a898eccb7bd3eb5f0ab4ae8e275e2e65c4c83f84740?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84c1b51748d0297cf12e5a898eccb7bd3eb5f0ab4ae8e275e2e65c4c83f84740?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Bhumika Indulia"},"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_1\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}