Conviction Not Vitiated Merely Because Regular Court Tried Juvenile as Adult, But Sentence Cannot Operate: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has delivered an important ruling on the legal consequences when a person is found to have been a juvenile on the date of the offence but was tried and convicted by a regular criminal court as an adult. The Court held that the conviction recorded on the merits does not automatically have to be cancelled merely because the accused was wrongly tried by a regular criminal court.…