{"id":43286,"date":"2016-06-04T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43286"},"modified":"2016-06-06T03:42:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T22:12:33","slug":"mercedes-hit-run-case-teen-tried-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/mercedes-hit-run-case-teen-tried-adult","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes hit-and-run case: Teen to be tried as adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42078\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Sodomising-Minor.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42078\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/delhi-court-acquits-juvenile-charged-sodomising-minor-inmate-1997\/sodomising-minor\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Sodomising-Minor.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sodomising Minor\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sodomising Minor&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Sodomising-Minor.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Sodomising-Minor.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42078 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Sodomising-Minor.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mercedes hit-and-run case: Teen to be tried as adult\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mercedes hit-and-run case: Teen to be tried as adult<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a first, a teenager, who allegedly ran over a 32-year-old marketing executive while driving his father&#8217;s Mercedes, will now face trial as an adult after the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) today said the offence allegedly committed by him was &#8220;heinous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Presiding Officer of the JJB passed the order on the application of Delhi Police which had sought transfer of the case to trial court to try as adult the accused who turned major just four days after the April 4 incident.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first of its kind case since the amendment in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, which allowed the Board to transfer cases of heinous offences by children to Sessions court.<\/p>\n<p>As per section 2(33) of the Act, &#8220;heinous offences&#8221; include the offences for which minimum punishment under IPC or any other law for the time being in force is imprisonment for seven years or more.<\/p>\n<p>The police had on May 26 chargesheeted the juvenile in the JJB for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder entails a maximum of 10 years jail.<\/p>\n<p>The JJB had reserved its order yesterday after hearing for over an hour arguments by Special Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava who had said the boy belongs to the age group of 16-18 years and this offence comes under definition of &#8220;heinous crimes&#8221; so his case should be transferred to the trial court.<\/p>\n<p>The JJB today accepted the argument and allowed the plea of Delhi Police, Shrivastava said.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, a case under IPC sections 304 A (causing death by rash or negligent act) was lodged against the teenager but later on he was booked for the alleged offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sent to the reform home.<\/p>\n<p>Police had said in its charge sheet that the boy had fatally run over victim Siddharth Sharma with his father&#8217;s Mercedes when Sharma was trying to cross a road near Ludlow Castle School in north Delhi on April 4.<\/p>\n<p>The final report was filed for alleged offences under IPC sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 279 (driving on a public way so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life) and 337 (causing hurt by an act which endangers human life) against him.<\/p>\n<p>The Board had on April 26 granted bail to the youth who sought the relief to appear in entrance examinations.<\/p>\n<p>Police had said that the car was being driven at a speed of at least 80 km per hour and Sharma was flung several feet into the air by the impact of the crash and landed around 15 metres away from where he stood.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, a teenager, who allegedly ran over a 32-year-old marketing executive while driving his father&#8217;s Mercedes, will now face trial as an adult after the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) today said the offence allegedly committed by him was &#8220;heinous&#8221;. 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