IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M-16281 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision: May 25, 2011 Shamsher Singh alias Shera and others ….Petitioners Versus State of Punjab … Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK SINGH 1. Whether reporters of local news papers may be allowed to see judgment? 2. To be referred to reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr. Veneet Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioners. Alok Singh, J. (Oral) Learned counsel for the petitioners states that all the three accused-petitioners are juvenile. He further states that offences, in the present case, are punishable under Sections 323, 324, 326, 148, 149 of the Indian Penal Code. Learned counsel further states that since all the petitioners are juvenile, they cannot be arrested and sent to the jail. He further states that petitioners shall appear/surrender before the Principal Magistrate/Chief Judicial Magistrate, Crl. Misc. No.M-16281 of 2011 Amritsar, on or before 04.06.2011 and shall place entire material before him to prove that they are juvenile. Learned counsel further states that petitioners have reasonably apprehension in their mind that if they appear/surrender before the learned Principal Magistrate/Chief Judicial Magistrate, he may send the petitioners in custody. Present petition is disposed of with the direction that petitioners shall surrender/appear before the Principal Magistrate/Chief Judicial Magistrate, Amritsar, on or before 04.06.2011; they shall move proper application along with the evidence claiming themselves to be juvenile, whereupon the Principal Magistrate/Chief Judicial Magistrate, Amritsar, shall take decision in accordance with the Juvenile Justice Act. During the pendency of the petition, claiming petitioners to be juvenile, petitioners shall not be arrested on furnishing bail bonds to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Amritsar. May 25, 2011 ( Alok Singh ) vkd Judge 2