This Criminal Revision has been preferred by the petitioner Deepak Kumar Singh under Section 53 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 against the judgment dated 23.11.2009 passed by Sri G.K. Verma, Sessions Judge, Palamau at Daltonganj in Cr. Appeal No. 62 of 2009 by which the prayer of the petitioner for declaring him juvenile, rejected by the Juvenile Justice Board, Palamau at Daltonganj in connection with Sadar (Town) P.S. Case No. 159 of 2006 corresponding to G.R. No. 629 of 2006 was affirmed and the appeal was dismissed. The petitioner was in custody for the alleged offence under Sections 302/ 201 of the Indian Penal Code.

2. The prosecution story in short was that the village chowkidar in his statement before the police on 4.5.2006 narrated that a dead body of an unknown person was found thrown by putting inside a gunny bag. The neck and limbs of the deceased was tightly tied with nylon ropes to which Sadar (Town) P.S. Case No. 159 of 2006 was registered for the alleged offence under Sections 302/201 of the Indian Penal Code against unknown accused. During course of investigation the name of the deceased was transpired to be Santosh Agarwal w