HC: JJ Act inadequate for crimes by under-16s

The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court has observed that the present law dealing with children a​ged below 16 in heinous-crime cases as juvenile offenders is "totally inadequate and ill equipped". The court also made scathing observations about the legislature, saying no lessons had been learned from the Nirbhaya case.

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