https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311105 The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 operates prospectively from 1.4.2001 and creates only a limited statutory fiction for pending proceedings under the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986. That fiction applies only where the accused had not completed 18 years of age on the commencement date; it does not give retrospective protection to a person who had already crossed 18 before 1.4.2001. On that basis, the respondent could not claim the benefit of the 2000 Act and the pending matter had to be dealt with under the earlier law. en-us Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:48:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311105 The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 operates prospectively from 1.4.2001 and creates only a limited statutory fiction for pending proceedings under the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986. That fiction applies only where the accused had not completed 18 years of age on the commencement date; it does not give retrospective protection to a person who had already crossed 18 before 1.4.2001. On that basis, the respondent could not claim the benefit of the 2000 Act and the pending matter had to be dealt with under the earlier law. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311105