NEW DELHI/GURUGRAM : A student of Class XI who faces trial for murdering a seven-year-old boy on the campus of a well-known CBSE school in the city last September will be treated as an adult, the Gurgaon sessions court ruled on Monday.Additional sessions judge JS Kundu upheld the decision of Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) that had ordered on December 20 last year that the boy would be tried as an adult, and rejected the appeal filed by the teenager’s family. The lawyer for the boy said he would move the Punjab and Haryana high court against the sessions court’s order.The seven-year-old boy was murdered on September 8 last year, allegedly with a knife that was used to slit his throat in the boys’ washroom on the ground floor of the school.Two more appeals challenging the JJB order to allow CBI to take fingerprints of the teenager and a three-day ‘custody’ granted by the JJB to the CBI in November were also rejected by the sessions court.The murder accused’s family had filed a petition contesting the JJB’s order, claiming it was passed even before the CBI completed its investigation and filed a chargesheet in the case. The CBI filed its main chargesheet naming the boy as the prime accused on February 5 this year. The agency is yet to file the supplementary chargesheet.The youth’s family also contested the basis of the JJB decision, the teenager’s social investigation and psychological reports, which they were not allowed to contest. But rejecting their argument, the sessions court observed that the JJB’s judgment was reasoned, judicious and sustainable in the eyes of law.“By giving this judgment today, that the juvenile be tried as an adult, justice was done and the juvenile shall not be leniently let off after such a heinous offence,” said advocate Sushil Tekriwal, who is representing the murdered boy’s father. “I am glad that our contention has been acknowledged by the court and a significant verdict has been delivered,” he added.Sandeep Aneja, the lawyer who represents the boy accused of murder, said, “The JJB passed its order in haste and it was upheld by the sessions court. We will approach the high court.” The Class XI student, who was 16 and a half years old at the time of the crime, will remain at the Faridabad correction home, where he has been lodged since his detention by the CBI on November 7 last year.The murdered boy’s father expressed satisfaction over the court order, saying it was in consonance with the crime that the Class XI student had committed. “We are hoping the guilty will be punished and we will get justice,” he said.In its 18-page order, the JJB had said, “This board is of the considered opinion that juvenile had sufficient mental and physical capacity to commit the offence alleged against him and also had adequate ability to understand the consequences of the act committed by him. In view of the above, the board is of (the) considered opinion that juvenile should be treated as adult. Juvenile was not found to be suffering from any mental and physical ailments.”It also said, “Apart from the two reports, juvenile was heard personally by the board on November 22 and various questions were put to him in order to assess his capacity to commit and understand the consequence of the acts which culminated in registration of FIR against juvenile, and juvenile gave answers to all questions confidently.”The case turned on its head last November when the CBI detained the Class XI student as the prime accused when all along the police, who were initially handling the probe, had maintained that the murderer was a school bus conductor. The conductor was arrested the same day the murder was committed. After the CBI took over the probe and filed its chargesheet, the conductor was acquitted on February 28.(The school and the victim have not been named in the report because of a court order)