Vicky Tyagi murder: Accused claims to be minor

The accused in the Vicky Tyagi murder case has pleaded in court here that he is a minor and be treated as a juvenile.
Claiming that he was under eighteen years old, the accused, who mortally shot Vicky Tyagi, an alleged gangster, multiple times in a courtroom here on February 16, urged the court to hand over his case to a juvenile court.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Narender Kumar posted the matter for hearing to tomorrow.
An application was filed in the court on behalf of the accused clamining that he is under eighteen years of age and should be declared juvinile in the case.

The accused was arrested from the spot and produced in court, which sent him to judicial custody treating him as a major, as per the police records which claimed that he was 19 years old.
Tyagi was one of the accused in the 2011 Barkali case, in which eight people of a family were killed.