Pradhyumn Thakur case: Juvenile Justice Board to decide on minor’s status

GURUGRAM: The juvenile justice board is likely to decide during the next hearing whether the Class XI student, apprehended in connection with the murder of Pradhyumn Thakur, should be treated as an adult or minor.

Appearing on behalf of the juvenile on Friday, advocate Tanvir Ahmed Mir sought copies of the investigation report and the physiological text report submitted by experts, who examined the student to decide his maturity level.

The board will hear the case again on December 13.

During the hearing, Mir accused CBI with destruction of evidence in the case. "As per a SC ruling, re-creation of crime scene cannot be done at the crime spot. In this case, CBI recreated the crime scene at the same bathroom were the incident had taken place. By doing so, they destroyed the evidence and repeated the mistakes of the investigators in the Aarushi murder case," Mir argued.

The central probe agency had earlier filed an application, seeking permission to get finger prints of the juvenile. Challenging it, Mir argued that during the re-creation of the crime scene, the juvenile might have left his finger prints and there was no technology to ascertain the date of prints.