JUDGMENT

K.S. Garewal, J.- Counsel prays that the petitioner is juvenile and has been so detennined by Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Court, Ludhiana vide order dated October 5, 2001, annexed herein as Annexure P-1. However, the Court declined bail to the petitioner vide order dated October 23, 200 land held as under:

"We have considered the above submissions put forward on behalf of counsel for juvenile in conflict With law. Although the nature and gravity of offence is not to be looked into while dealing With bail matter in case of juvenile in conflict with law, yet at the same time it is to be seep that such concession of bail would not bring him into association with any known criminal or expose him to moral danger or that his release would defeat the ends of justice. In view of the given facts and circumstances of the case we find that the juvenile if granted concession of bail at this stage would expose him to moral danger as the offences which he allegedly committed involve moral turpitude. The accused in such like offences are looked down upon as depraved persons by the society. Otherwise also as it has been already submitted in the bail application itself that the whole fa