On Thursday, a juvenile court in Bihar’s Nalanda district granted the freedom of a kid accused of stealing sweets and a cellphone from his aunt’s home, saying that police should not have filed a prosecution since a child’s misdeeds must be judged in light of Lord Krishna’s “Bal Leela.”
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The incident occurred in a village in Nalanda’s Harnaut block when a child visited his maternal grandmother and went to his aunt’s house in the neighbourhood, where he ate all the sweets in the fridge and took a cell phone, which he was later caught playing with outside the house. When the boy’s aunt discovered out, she gave him over to the cops.
According to the court, the police should have responded with tact and realised there was no need to file an FIR in this case. The court stated, “Registering the matter in the daily case diary would have been adequate.” It also told the child protection team to make sure the youngster in issue wasn’t being harassed.
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During counselling, the kid told the magistrate that his father, a bus driver and the family’s main breadwinner, had been bedridden following an accident due to a significant spinal injury. He said that his mother was unwell but that they couldn’t afford therapy because of their poverty. The youngster pledged that he would never make the same mistake again. Krishna Deo Mishra, a senior attorney and child campaigner, praised the board’s judgement.
