Use of children in crimes may lead to re-fixing juvenility age: Delhi HC
Justice Girish Kathpalia made these observations while dismissing an anticipatory bail plea of a man accused of using a child in illicit liquor trafficking.
The judge said that the child abuse involved in carrying out such crimes is far more seious than the illicit liquor trafficking.
"It is being observed that criminals use children to commit a wide range of crimes, involving not just liquor and drug peddling, but also arms and ammunition, and even acts of extreme violence, which is leading society to consider re-fixing the age of juvenility," HC observed in its order.
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