Prosecutors on Monday turned over to the Hiroshima Family Court the 17-year-old youth arrested in the May 3-4 hijacking of an expressway bus in Saga Prefecture, in line with the Juvenile Law. One woman was killed in the incident.
Prosecutors, however, want the court to send the case back to their jurisdiction and allow them to have the boy tried before a local district court, where the accused would be tried under the Code of Criminal Procedure.
If found guilty by the family court, the youth would probably be sent to a correctional institution for juveniles.
The family court is expected to make its decision within four weeks, unless the process is interrupted by a psychiatric test.