The matter was heard by the district and sessions judge here yesterday on a complaint lodged by a human rights activist who claimed that the offenders were minor.
The court while admitting the petition has called for admission registers of the school where the accused had been enrolled as students in the past. The school authorities who were earlier summoned submitted the admission registers in connection with the litigation.
The court has posted the matter for hearing on September 14.
Meanwhile, police have also launched a separate probe by human rights protection cell wing into the age controversy.
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"Police are looking into the 'age-angle' of the accused. If they are found to be minors, they would be sent to child reform home. Their trial would take place at juvenile court," Kendrapara SP Sarthak Sarangi said.
"As per school records, both are minors and despite grave nature of offence allegedly committed by them, the law does not permit police to send them to jail," human rights activist B K Pati said.
Police had sent the duo to judicial custody as nobody has stated about the minor status of the accused.
Meanwhile, another person has been detained by police in connection with the case.
The victim's dying declaration was recorded by Kendrapara police in presence of a magistrate in SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack on July 29. In the dying declaration, the victim has named the detained person though he did not figure in the list of accused persons in the FIR.