Gujarat High Court Grants Bail To 16-Yr-Old Accused Of Committing Unnatural Sex With 13-Yr-Old

The Gujarat High Court has granted bail to a 16 years old boy, accused of forcibly committing unnatural sex (sodomy) with a minor boy, aged about 13 years.Keeping in view Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice Act, a Bench of Justice Samir Dave granted bail to the accused while restraining him from entering the society where the alleged victim resides. In doing so, the Bench allowed the criminal revision application filed under Section 102 of the JJ Act to quash the order passed by the Sessions Court and the JJ Board, refusing bail.Section 12 provides that when a child is apprehended for allegedly committing any offence, he/she shall be released on bail with or without surety or placed under the supervision of a probation officer or under the care of any person.The Applicant herein, aged 16 years and 8 months, is alleged to have taken Complainant's minor son, aged 13 years, to a terrace and to have forcibly committed sodomy. He also allegedly threatened the victim of death in the event the incident was disclosed to anyone.Accordingly, an FIR was filed under Sections 377, 323, 506(1) of Indian Penal Code & U/S. 3(A), 4 & 18 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and the Applicant was arrested in April 2022 and sent to a Child Observation Home. The Applicant averred that he was a juvenile person who was falsely implicated as an accused in the present offence. Further, he was residing with his widow mother and wanted to commence studies in the next academic year. He had no criminal antecedents and hence urged that the application be allowed. The APP strongly objected to the contentions of the Applicant and sought dismissal of the application. Considering the contentions advanced by the parties as well as the age of the accused, the High Court deemed it fit to allow the application and ordered his release on regular bail with conditions. Case Title: MINOR MOHIT SHANKARBHAAI VAGHELA THROUGH TEJAL SHANKARBHAI VAGHELA v/s STATE OF GUJARAT Case Citation: 2022 LiveLaw (Guj) 192Click Here To Read/Download Order

Gujarat High Court Grants Bail To 16-Yr-Old Accused Of Committing Unnatural Sex With 13-Yr-Old

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