ORDER :

Heard Mr. Vikram Deo Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Deepak Kumar, learned AC to GP-4 for the State. The petitioner is aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the order dated 10.02.2021 passed by learned Fast Track Court-IV, Siwan in Sessions Trial No. 03 of 2008. It appears that the petitioner has been convicted under Section 364-A/34 IPC in Sessions Trial No. 03 of 2008. He has been sentenced to life. The conviction and sentence passed against him has been upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. No plea of juvenility was raised either before the Juvenile Justice Board or the trial court or the Hon’ble Supreme Court till disposal of the case. It is stated that the SLP (Crl.) No. 297 of 2017 was dismissed vide order dated 14.07.2017.

2. For the first time, after about 3 years from the date of dismissal of SLP, the petitioner raised a plea of juvenility before the learned trial court. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in an another case when the petitioner was convicted for the offence under Section 364A IPC and his appeal being Cr. Appeal (DB) No. 742 of 2012 was pending before the Hon’ble Division Bench of this Court, a plea of juvenility was