Juvenile law too liberal: Apex Court

The Supreme Court has portrayed an adolescent law that endorses “reprobation” and “gathering advising” as discipline for even grave and offensive offenses as “unreasonably liberal.”
Tolerating that adolescent guilty parties require the assurance of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, a Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and U.u. Lalit, then again, said law must “fulfill the longing of society” and endorse a discipline befitting the gravity of the wrongdoing.
“In a populace of 1,000, one for every penny may be adolescents who confer assault and homicide. In any case even this one for every penny can be a threat. So if we pass by the gravity of the wrongdoing or the rate of adolescent populace that may carry out these horrifying criminal acts?” Justice Misra asked on Thursday.
“Presently there are such a variety of multi-social features – web, aspiration. Not at all like the 60s and 70s where young men used to strike one another in a school ground, the world we live in is different now. Fierce killings happen,” Justice Misra said.
The Bench asked Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi to propose to the legislature to take a relook at the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000.