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“The Pune court directed that Chaudhary will remain in the Yerawada central jail till the matter is decided. Chaudhary, too, was produced before the court after he was brought to Pune from the Nagpur central jail on a transfer warrant.Chaudhary’s lawyer, Harshad Nimbalkar, furnished the seven original documents in relation to the juvenility claim to the court. “The PDSJ also accepted in principle the photo copies of four other documents, which we are relying on, and the originals of these documents will be furnished soon,” Nimbalkar told TOI. PUNE: The Principal District and Sessions Judge (PDSJ) here on Wednesday, in a Supreme Court (SC) driven exercise, directed the Pune police to establish the veracity of seven original documents furnished by a death row convict in the 1994 Rathi multiple murders in support of his claim that he was a juvenile at the time of the offence.The police have to furnish their verification report to the court in a week. On January 29, the SC had passed an order giving six weeks to the PDSJ, Pune, to decide the juvenility claim of convict Narayan, alias Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary, and furnish a report.In pursuance of this order, PDSJ S B Agrawal summoned district government pleader Ujjwala Pawar and a senior officer from the Kothrud police for a hearing on Wednesday..