Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 26: In a Public Interest Litigation filed by retired IGP Farooq Khan seeking declaration of provisions of Jammu and Kashmir Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Act, 2013 as ultra-vires and violative of Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India, Division Bench of High Court comprising Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Hasnain Massodi today issued notice to Chief Secretary and Secretary, Department of Law and Justice with the direction to file objection on next date of hearing.
The petitioner is also seeking directions to the State to confine the age of juvenility to 16 years as was the case before passing of the legislation and to effectively consider creating of classes/categories of cases where the benefit of juvenility is to be given under the provisions of the J&K Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Act, 2013 to the persons who are above 14 and less than 16 years of age.
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