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Juvenile Justice Board orders 15-year-old boy to paintings at cow refuge as punishment in Uttar Pradesh

Via IANS

MORADABAD: In a singular punishment, the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad has ordered a 15-year-old boy to do 15 days of neighborhood provider at a cow refuge. He must blank a public position for every other 15 days.

The boy used to be discovered to blame of sharing an ‘objectionable’ submit in opposition to Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath on social media a month in the past.

Divulging main points of the case, suggest Atul Singh, further govt suggest, stated, “The accused had shared a morphed image of the executive minister with an inflammatory message on social media. An FIR used to be registered by way of sub-inspector Rajesh Kumar at Sahaswan police station previous this month in opposition to the boy below segment 505 (public mischief) of the IPC together with segment 67 of the IT Act. He used to be later despatched to a juvenile house.”

Making an allowance for his age and that it used to be his first offence, JJB participants gave him a possibility to ‘serve the neighborhood’.

JJB president Aanchal Adhana together with participants Pramila Gupta and Arvind Kumar Gupta, delivered the judgment on Monday.

The JJB moreover slapped a wonderful of Rs 10,000 at the youngster below the IT Act, Singh added.