Supreme Court Acquitted Woman In 23-Year-Old Murder Case After Finding Her To Be A Juvenile At The Time Of Offence

The Supreme Court in the case Pramila versus State Of Chhattisgarh observed and has acquitted a woman who was sentenced to suffer life imprisonment for committing an offence of murder, after finding that she was a juvenile in 2000 when the said offence took place.

The bench comprising of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan in the case observed and has noted that at the time of occurrence of the offence, the accused was juvenile, and therefore, no punishment could be imposed on the accused in view of the Juvenile Justice Act.

The court in the case observed and has set aside the concurring finding of the High Court and the Trial Court.

The court stated that on the date of occurrence of the IN offence, the appellant was a juvenile and the maximum action which could have been taken against the appellant was of sending her to a special home.

The court observed that the accused in the case had already undergone incarceration for a period of more than eight years as a juvenile.

In the present case, one Pramila-accused was convicted for committing an offence of murder i.e., the date of offence being June 15, 2000 and was sentenced to undergo life-imprisonment by the trial court.