Child rights initiatives are concentrated in metropolitan areas while children in rural areas are left with makeshift courts such as village panchayats.
In March, Sita Devi & her elder sister Puja had stepped out for shopping before leaving for home in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri. Little did they know only one of them would make alive.
For the Sarsar family, time stopped when they lost Bhumi and Gunjan. Their mother Shweta says that had the minor & his family apologised, she may have forgiven them, but they never did.
Pune Police booked the teenage driver's businessman father and two employees of a club that allegedly served alcohol to the minor under two sections of the Juvenile Justice Act.
Pune Police have arrested boy’s father & owners of pub where he was allegedly served alcohol hours before Porsche driven by him hit motorcycle killing two in early hours of Sunday.
SC was dealing with an appeal in criminal case involving charges of rape & wrongful confinement under IPC & POCSO, when judges noted significant lacunas in the Act.
Case deals with viral video made by Kerala activist. Judge Kauser Edappagath said she meant to educate her children to treat nude bodies as more than ‘just sexual objects only’.
While he had not raised claim of juvenility during trial, convict in 2018 filed application in top court under Section 9 (2) of Juvenile Justice Act to highlight this point.
In letter sent to NCPCR and included in affidavit before Delhi HC, Twitter said Gandhi's tweet was reinstated globally on evidence that minor child’s parents had approved of it.
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IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Maybe you should investigate together with the Print, who is doing phenomenal job at the journalism not necessarily on the investigative journalism though, on the misuse of POCSO as well and write an article. You are certainly one of the right persons to do that. Looking forward to your article on this. Congratulations on this anyway!!
Indian justice system fails everyone everyday, Justice Lokur. The rampant misuse of POCSO, the police misconduct and the way justice system ignores it, ”bail is a rule” only on paper look at the crowded jails.. shame on the justice system for taking a high moral ground and yet not fulfilling it’s responsibilities at every level.
Maybe you should investigate together with the Print, who is doing phenomenal job at the journalism not necessarily on the investigative journalism though, on the misuse of POCSO as well and write an article. You are certainly one of the right persons to do that. Looking forward to your article on this. Congratulations on this anyway!!
Indian justice system fails everyone everyday, Justice Lokur. The rampant misuse of POCSO, the police misconduct and the way justice system ignores it, ”bail is a rule” only on paper look at the crowded jails.. shame on the justice system for taking a high moral ground and yet not fulfilling it’s responsibilities at every level.
Indian justice system fails not only children, but all people of all ages every day.