The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed that the 17-year-old boy allegedly involved in the Porsche car accident in Pune be released immediately as the orders remanding him to an observation home were illegal and the law regarding juveniles must be implemented fully.The teenager, who had got bail hours after the accident on May 19 but was sent to the observation home three days later following an outcry, was released in the evening following the HC order.
A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande said it was the court’s bounden duty to prioritize justice above everything else, and it was not swayed by the uproar created because of the ghastly mishap which resulted in the loss of two innocent lives.
“Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum, a latin phrase which connotes, “Let justice be done though the heavens fall,” clearly convey a principle in law, that justice must be realized regardless of consequences and just decisions may be made at whatever cost it comes,” the court said.
“We have all sympathies for the victim and their families, but as a court of law, we are bound to implement the law as it stands,” the HC said.
The order was passed on a petition filed by the 17-year-old boy’s paternal aunt, who claimed he was illegally detained.