In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-25018 of 2010 ..... Date of decision:1.12.2010 Rajat and another .....Petitioners v. State of Haryana .....Respondent .... Present: Mr. Brijender Kaushik, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. K.C. Gupta, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Haryana for respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. Learned counsel for the State, on instructions from ASI Dhanpat Singh, Police Station Parao, District Ambala, has submitted that the petitioners have joined the investigation and their custody is not required for the purposes of investigation. It may be noticed that injuries on the person of the complainant Deep Narain are attributed to Ravi (petitioner No.2). However, the date of birth of Ravi (petitioner No.2) as per his birth certificate (Annexure-P.3) is 23.10.1992. Therefore, on the date of incident i.e. 3.6.2010 Ravi (petitioner No.2) was a juvenile. As such, he is entitled to the benefit of Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000. Petitioner No.1 in the said incident has not been attributed any injury and it is alleged that he had thrown the cycle of the complainant on the ground. Besides, in terms of the affidavit (Annexure-P.4) of the father of Rajat (petitioner No.1), namely, Sohan Lal he is a juvenile. Cr. Misc. No.M-25018 of 2010 [2] In the circumstances, the interim bail granted on 13.9.2010 is made absolute. The criminal miscellaneous petition stands disposed of. December 1, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*