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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT

JODHPUR

S.B. Criminal Writ Petition No. 460/2026

Deepak Sharma S/o Shri Babu Lal, Aged About 26 Years, R/o

Main Road, Bramano Ka Bas, Village Falka, Block Jaitaran District

Beawar

----Petitioner

Versus

1. State Of Rajasthan, Through The Secretary, Department

Of Home Affairs, Secretariat, Jaipur

2. Director General Of Police, Rajasthan, Police

Headquarters, Jaipur

3. Inspector General Of Police, Ajmer Range, Ajmer

Rajasthan

4. Superintendent Of Police, Disrict Beawar, Rajasthan

5. Station House Officer, Sho, Police Station Anandpur Kalu

Block Jaitaran, District Beawar

----Respondents

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Jitendra Choudhary

For Respondent(s) : Mr. Surendra Bishnoi, AGA

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE FARJAND ALI

Order

04/02/2026

1. By way of filing the instant writ petition, the petitioner is

seeking following prayers:-

"I. Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction, including

a writ of Certiorari and/or Mandamus, quashing and setting

aside the Police Verification Report dated 27.08.2024

(Verification No.4865871), insofar as it reflects the juvenile

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incident of the year 2016 and labels the petitioner as having

"Criminal Antecedents";

II. Issue a writ of Mandamus directing the Respondent

Authorities to forthwith expunge, erase and delete all

reference to the juvenile case of the year 2016 (FIR

No.111/2016, Police Station Anandpur Kalu, District Pali)

from the police records, CCTNS database, and all connected

digital and physical repositories, in strict compliance with

Section 24 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of

Children) Act, 2015;

III. Direct the Respondent Authorities to issue a fresh Police

Verification Certificate in favour of the Petitioner, clearly

reflecting "No Criminal Record/No Criminal Case Found",

within a time-bound manner, so as to enable the petitioner

to pursue employment and livelihood without any unlawful

stigma;

IV Declare that the action of the Respondent Authorities in

disclosing and relying upon a juvenile record for the purpose

of adult police verification is illegal, arbitrary,

unconstitutional, and violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the

Constitution of India, as well as contrary to the mandate of

the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015".

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and gone

through the averments made in the writ petition.

3. The petitioner was juvenile at the time of commission of

crime. He was charge-sheeted for the offence under Section

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4/25 of the Arms Act. Vide order dated 25.04.2017, he

pleaded guilty for the above offence and was ordered to

deposit a fine of Rs.200/- under Section 15(d) of Juvenile

Justice Act,2000.

4. It is not in dispute that the petitioner was a juvenile at the

time of the alleged incident and that the proceedings

culminated in a minor disposition under the Juvenile Justice

Act. The material on record further reflects that after the

said incident, the petitioner has reformed himself, completed

his education up to Class XII, and is presently seeking

employment to earn his livelihood.

5. The action of the respondent authorities in reflecting the

juvenile incident of the year 2016 in the Police Verification

Report dated 27.08.2024, branding the petitioner as having

“criminal antecedents”, is patently illegal and stigmatic. In

the present socio-economic framework, a clean police

verification certificate is a sine qua non for securing

employment. Disclosure of a juvenile record has the effect of

permanently excluding the petitioner from the organised

workforce, thereby directly infringing his fundamental right

to livelihood, which is an integral facet of the right to life and

dignity guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of

India.

6. Such disclosure is also in the teeth of the very object and

spirit of