Delhi Mercedes Hit-and-run-case: Police request Juvenile Justice to assess if minor can be tried as adult

A teenager who had run over a man with his dad's Mercedes was chargesheeted in the Juvenile Justice Board for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and the police has filed for him to be tried in a trial court.

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In the Mercedes hit and run case, the police filed for an application for transferring the case to the trial court to try as an adult as the boy turned major just four days after the incident. (File photo)

The Delhi Police Thursday filed a chargesheet before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) in the Mercedes hit-and-run case in which a minor boy allegedly ran over 32-year-old man.

The probe agency has requested the board to conduct a “preliminary assessment” of the boy’s mental and physical capacity “to understand the consequence of the offence” and pass an order if there is a need for trial of the minor offender as an adult.

Police filed the chargesheet before the principal magistrate, JJB, for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and destruction of evidence.

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Sources said the chargesheet also mentions a request letter, in which police said they have moved a separate application under the amended sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 to consider the alleged offence to be under the category “heinous”.

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Since the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder entails a “maximum punishment” of up to 10 years imprisonment, this is the ground for considering it as “heinous offence”, the sources added.

“In case of a heinous offence alleged to have been committed by a child, who has completed or is above the age of sixteen years, the Board shall conduct a preliminary assessment with regard to his mental and physical capacity to commit such offence, ability to understand the consequences of the offence and the circumstances in which he allegedly committed the offence, and may pass an order,” states section 15 of the JJ Act.

The board will take up consideration of the chargesheet on June 2.

Kaunain Sheriff M

Kaunain Sheriff M is an award-winning investigative journalist and the National Health Editor at The Indian Express. He is the author of Johnson & Johnson Files: The Indian Secrets of a Global Giant, an investigation into one of the world’s most powerful pharmaceutical companies. With over a decade of experience, Kaunain brings deep expertise in three areas of investigative journalism: law, health, and data. He currently leads The Indian Express newsroom’s in-depth coverage of health. His work has earned some of the most prestigious honours in journalism, including the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award, and the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink Award. Kaunain has also collaborated on major global investigations. He was part of the Implant Files project with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which exposed malpractices in the medical device industry across the world. He also contributed to an international investigation that uncovered how a Chinese big-data firm was monitoring thousands of prominent Indian individuals and institutions in real time. Over the years, he has reported on several high-profile criminal trials, including the Hashimpura massacre, the 2G spectrum scam, and the coal block allocation case. Within The Indian Express, he has been honoured three times with the Indian Express Excellence Award for his investigations—on the anti-Sikh riots, the Vyapam exam scam, and the abuse of the National Security Act in Uttar Pradesh. ... Read More

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