Pradhyumn murder case: Juvenile to be treated as major

GURUGRAM: In a major development in the Pradhyumn murder case, the Juvenile Justice Board on Wednesday directed that the 16-year-old accused juvenile to be tried as an adult and not as minor.
According to reports, the board took cognizance of the psychological assessment test report and social background report of juvenile on Wednesday before deciding to treat juvenile as adult or minor.The report emphasised that the juvenile was well aware of the consequences of the crime.
The Juvenile Justice Board also transferred the murder case to the District And Sessions Court and hearing is scheduled to begin December 22 onwards.
The Class XI student, who is an accused of murdering seven-year-old Pradhyumn, was produced before the JJB which remanded him another 14 days in judicial custody.

He was lodged in an observation home in Faridabad during this period and was on Wednesday produced before the JJB.
The cold-blooded murder case of Pradhyumn took a new dimension after the CBI trashed the probe by the Gurugram police and gave a clean chit to bus conductor Ashok Kumar, who was arrested with the charges of murder and sexual assault in connection with the case, and arrested the juvenile.
Pradhyumn was found in a pool of blood with his throat slit inside Ryan International School in Gurugram.
The Juvenile Justice Board of Gurgaon had earlier allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take the finger prints of the class XI student.

The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMIC) Devender Singh of the Juvenile Justice Board of Gurgaon rejected five different applications filed by the juvenile's counsel in the last few weeks.