Overview

• Pune police filed an appeal under Section 101 of the Juvenile Justice Act after the district collector granted permission on July 31, challenging the Juvenile Justice Board’s July 15 ruling.
• The JJB had declined to classify the May 19, 2024 Porsche Taycan collision that killed two IT professionals as a heinous offence and refused to order an adult trial.
• Prosecutors argue the accused’s intoxication, high-speed impact and alleged conspiracy to swap blood samples at Sassoon General Hospital meet the Act’s threshold for a preliminary psychological assessment.
• Defence counsel Prashant Patil invoked the Supreme Court’s Shilpa Mittal precedent and the law’s reformative purpose to argue that the appeal is not maintainable.
• The sessions court’s decision will test how strictly courts apply the narrow statutory criteria for heinous offences and could reshape India’s juvenile justice procedures.