it has sought a status report from the police the boys spent more than three weeks in jail while their parents ran from police official to police official seeking to know the fate of their children a division bench comprising justice devinder gupta and justice s mukerjee directed the station house officer of the tughlaq road police station to file the report on april 15 it has been unequivocally established that two of them are minors he takes credit for critical amendments to the juvenile justice act the arrests and the attitude of the police were roundly condemned by experts and concerned citizens who felt that the families should be given justice now all three boys are out on bail the boys have no record of crime standing counsel mukta gupta accepted the notice on behalf of the delhi police the high court has now taken suo motu action on the reports published in the times of india under the law the parents of the boys should have been informed and the boys should have been given the benefit of the doubt till their ages had been established the sho should file a status report and all papers concerning arrest and release of the three juveniles be produced the bench ordered after our first report meena said in a letter to this newspaper that two of the boys were not juveniles but despite this the police acted against them the plight of the families all lower middle class and with limited resources was highlighted by the times of india in a series of daily reports they were picked up after they had a scuffle with some people at lodhi gardens nothing has so far been done to bring the officers at the police station to book though the provisions of the juvenile justice act are clear and there is a child officer at the tughlak road police station the boys were immediately treated as adult offenders this was supported by kanth new delhi the delhi high court has asked the police to explain how it could have taken three minor boys into custody and sent them to tihar jail on the allegation of having robbed a watch at lodhi gardens the police said that they did not treat them as minors because they did not appear to be so incidentally kanth runs an ngo called prayas which has a juvenile home the police did little to help this papers reporting and senior officers including deputy commissioner mk meena and joint commissioner amod kanth repeatedly insisting that only one of the boys was a minor