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2020 Supreme(Online)(DEL) 1280

HIGH COURT OF DELHI
BABLU – Appellant
Versus
STATE – Respondent


O R D E R

% 24.02.2020 VIBHU BAKHRU, J

1. The petitioner has filed the present revision petition, inter alia, impugning an order dated 31.03.2018 passed by the Juvenile Justice Board,wherebythe petitioner was found tobe a major and accordingly, his files were sent to the concerned Court.

2. The petitioner is an accused in FIR bearing no. 16/2018, under Section 376 of the IPC and Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act), registered with PS F.P. Beri, Delhi. An inquiry had been conducted regarding the age of the petitionerandtwodoctors,DrGauravVinodJain(CW1)andDrPuneet Garg (CW2) were examined. They opined that the petitioner is a major and is more than twenty-one years of age on the date of examination; that is, as on 29.01.2018. It was alleged that the offence had been committed in June/July 2017. Considering the above, the learned JJB concluded that the petitioner was not a minor on the date of the offence. 3. Thepetitionerhasfiledthepresentpetition,interalia,statingthat subsequent to passing of the said order, the petitioner had found a certificate dated 01.07.2010, issued by the Children’s Academy J.H. School, Bareilly, which indicates the

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