CCL K vs STATE NCT OF DELHI

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on: 11th December 2024 Pronounced on: 3rd March 2025 CRL.REV.P. 436/2022 CCL ‘K’ ..... Petitioner Through: Mr. Ashim Sood, Mr. Ashish Kumar, Ms. Prateek Kundu, Ms. Yamina Rizvi, Ms. Ragini Nagpal, Ms. Isha Khurana, Mr. Ashish Panday, Ekansh Gupta, Mr. Ankur Singhal, Mr. Subramaniam, Advocates. versus THE STATE (NCT OF DELHI) .... Respondent Through: Mr. Aman Usman, APP for State with Insp. Narender, SI Pankaj Yadav, PS: Nangloi CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANISH DAYAL JUDGMENT INDEX I. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THIS COURT ..................................................2 II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND ......................................................................3 III. SUBMISSIONS ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER ....................................5 1. Whether trial proceedings of a ‘child’ alleged to be in conflict with law and a person ‘not a child’, i.e. an adult, could be held jointly, after a preliminary assessment of Juvenile Justice Board (‘JJB’) declaring the ‘child in conflict with law’ (‘CCL’) to be psychologically and physically mature, is the question that has come up for consideration before this Court in this petition. 2. The pres