ORAL ORDER

Petitioner is seeking to quash the proceedings in CC No.8842/2023 on the file of the Court of II Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bengaluru Rural District, Bengaluru, arising out of Cr.No.137/2023 of Thalaghattapura Police Station, Bengaluru City, registered for offences punishable under Section 41 and 42 of Juvenile Justice Act, 1986 (for short ‘JJ Act’) 1986 and Section 74(1) and 85 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (for short ‘JJ (C &PC) Act’) (JJCC & PC) Act, 2015).

2. The first informant-District Child Protection Officer, South Division, Bengaluru City, set the law into motion by lodging a complaint with the police alleging that one Sri Sai Sneha Foundation (for short ‘Foundation’) was being run by accused No.1 without permission or license and in the said Foundation, she has kept the children in contravention of the provisions of the JJ Act, 1986 and without following the procedures contemplated under the said Act etc.

3. Charge sheet was filed against the petitioner under Section 74(1) and 85 of the JJ (C & PC), 2015 Act and Section 41 and 42 of the JJ Act, 1986.

4. Section 74(1) of the JJ (C & PC) Act, 2015, reads as under:

“74. Pr