IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No.2913 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision: December 09, 2011 Jaskaranpreet Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr.S.P.S.Sidhu, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, DAG, Punjab, for the State. Mr.Nakul Sharma, Advocate, for the complainant. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. The bail has been declined to juvenile and his appeal was dismissed by the Appellate Court by observing that he has committed murder of Gurwinder Singh with the help of Sukhpreet Kaur wife of the deceased. Even call details are referred to observe that there was some illicit relations between them. The considerations, which are required to be kept in view while considering the prayer of bail moved by a juvenile, are contained in Section 12 of the Act. This Section provides that when any person accused of a bailable or non-bailable offence, and apparently a juvenile, is arrested or detained or appears or is brought before a Board, such person shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure or in any other law for the time being in force, be released on bail with or without surety. Thus, this Section makes a provision for release of juvenile on bail notwithstanding anything contained in Cr.P.C. or any other law. This is the position for bailable or non-bailable offence. Exception then is carved out, whereby the bail could be denied to juvenile and this can be for the reasons as mentioned in the Section. The Section in this regard provides that juvenile shall not be released on bail if there appears reasonable grounds for believing that the release is likely to bring him into association with any known criminal or expose him to moral, physical or psychological danger or that his release would defeat the ends of justice. While declining the bail, no such considerations were kept in view by the courts below. As per Section 12 of the Act, juvenile is entitled to bail as a matter of right unless his case falls in the exceptions carved out. This case does not appear to be carrying any exception to deny the petitioner concession of bail. Bail to the satisfaction of Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board, Ferozepur. Petition is accordingly allowed. December 09, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE