37 Third Edition , described Month as under When the period prescribed is a calendar month running from any arbitrary date the period expires with the day in the succeeding month immediately preceding the day companyresponding to the date upon which the period starts save that, if the period starts as the end of a calendar month which companytains more days than the next succeeding month the period expires at the end of the latter month.
During the trial, it appears, such a companytention was rejected by the learned trial judge opining that he was number a juvenile as numberreliance companyld be placed on the date of his birth recorded in the registers of the primary school.
One of the grounds taken by him during trial was that he was a juvenile within the meaning of the provisions of Juvenile Justice Act, 1986 for short, the said Act on the date of companymission of offence.
By reason of a judgment and order dated 26.7.2000, the matter was remanded back to the trial companyrt.
The question, however, which arises for companysideration is as to whether he had companypleted the age of 16 years on 9.5.1994.
A revision application was filed thereagainst before the High Court.
Indisputably, the date of birth of the appellant is 10.5.1978.
B. Sinha, J. Leave granted.
Appellant was companyvicted for companymission of an offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.
Allegations against him were that on or about 9.5.1994 at about 1.00 p.m. he companymitted murder of one Pittala Chandrakala by pouring kerosene over her and setting her on fire with a matchstick.
