LEGAL REPORT ON JUVINILE

JUSTICE ACT (2015)

CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. History
3. ISSUE
4. SOLUTION
5. CONCLUTION
6. RECOMMENDATION
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
8. REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
The juvenile justice (care and protection ) act 2015
has been passed in the Parliament of India . It aims
to replace the existing Indian juvenile delinquency
law, Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of
Children) Act, 2000, so that juveniles in conflict
with Law in the age group of 1618, involved in
Heinous Offences, can be tried as adults . It was
passed on 7 May 2015 by the Lok Sabha amid
intense protest by several Members of Parliament.
It was passed on 22 December 2015 by the Rajya
Sabha.

HISTORY
After the 2012 Delhi gang rape, it was found
that one of the accused was a few months away
from being 18. So, he was tried in a juvenile court .
The Juvenile Justice Act was earlier passed in the
year 2000 by the parliament which had the
provisions to try anyone under the age of 18 in
juvenile justice system . This act had been in force
since 15 years until the infamous 2012 gang rape
case in which one of the offenders was a short of
18 years . So the law was amended last year and
under the amended law , in case of heinous crimes
committed by a minor who has completed or is
above the age of 16 years , the juvenile justice
board will try the minor as an adult .

ISSUE
If you can expect a person of 16 years to be
sensible enough to know the consequences of his
act then you must also give them the voting
rights . If you can try a person of 16 years as an
adult in case of heinous crimes then you must
consider the person as an adult in every aspect
including universal adult franchise , giving the
driving license , legal intoxication of alcohol etc.
Yes , the child welfare committees do look after the
institutional care for the children in their respective
districts but the ashamed fact is that the juvenile
homes are more of understaffed and overcrowded
hell holes than reform centers .

SOLUTION
when the children of our country lose their way ,
we should guide them , punish them and correct
them so that they can have a better future but we
should never stop taking care of them and let their
future go in the dark . I am not saying that we
should forgive the grave crimes like murder and
rape committed by them but an adult prison is the
least likely place where the juvenile will learn his
lesson and his goodness will be reclaimed . In order
to deter the crimes committed by children , trying
them to adults is not the best option but it is best
prevented by reaching out to them on time with
open arms and imparting them with education and
knowledge . Harsher punishments for juveniles will
only brutalise them more instead of helping them
in any manner .

CONCLUTION
This new act should be considered as the biggest
legal reform by the Indian judiciary and should be
welcomed and implemented fairly and considered
as a move towards stopping crimes by the
teenagers of country by creating a sense of fear of
punishment in the minds of teenagers by
introduction of such type of laws.

RECOMMENDATIONS
Quoting Nelson Mandela There can be no keener
revelation of a societys soul than the way in which
it treats children . So the major problem is that
the brutal gang rape and murder of a student in a
bus on a winter night in Delhi , the quality of the
soul of the Indian society stands on rest . Then
what should exactly be done so that the offender
learns his lesson without his future being in dark .
Well, there is scientific evidence to the level of
immaturity in a developing brain and a teenagers
brain is always developing compounded by the
confusion of bodily changes and the surging
hormones and each and every teenager goes
through this process and we all have our own way
to react to these changes depending on the kind of
surrounding we have been in and the kind of
upbringing we have experienced .

BIBLOGRAPHY
The report was made with reference to an article
written by me in a website and the facts were
taken from the Wikipedia and manupatra .

REFERENCES
1.http://www.manupatra.com/
2.http://www.manupatrafast.com/articles/ArticleS
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