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Juvenile Justice Act
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Haryana child rights panel wants juveniles released
March 28, 2020 8:56 pm
HSCPCR chairperson Jyoti Bainda in a letter to Justice Jaswant Singh, chairman, Juvenile Justice Monitoring Committee, Punjab and Haryana High Court, cited the 21-day lockdown period and recommended that “children be released on bail as per provisions of Section 12 of the Act”.
Their cases falling, Muzaffarnagar police now invoke Juvenile Act, say anti-CAA protesters used kids
January 24, 2020 10:34 am
Section 83 (2) of the JJ Act was invoked against at least 33 accused named in an FIR lodged on December 21 at the Civil Line police station in Muzaffarnagar — that FIR was also against 3,000 unknown accused.
Minors tonsured, stripped: Three men get 2-year jail, two to be set free
July 24, 2019 11:04 am
The men were convicted under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Juvenile Justice Act and for voluntarily causing hurt. They were also directed to pay Rs 15,000 each to the two victims.
Explained: When a juvenile is tried as an adult, when not
July 22, 2019 8:47 am
The Juvenile Justice Act of 2000 was amended in 2015 with a provision allowing for Children in Conflict with Law (CCL) to be tried as adults under certain circumstances.
Pune: Man booked for ‘beating two minor sons with cable wire’
May 17, 2019 4:03 am
The alleged incident took place around 3.30 pm on Tuesday. Residents in the building called the police after hearing the two boys crying loudly, said police.
Delhi court allows woman to adopt 15-year-old ward
January 11, 2019 1:21 am
As per court records, the woman filed a petition in 2018, taking “shelter under this new phrase” of the JJ Act, 2015. The scope of guardianship is “limited” once the minor turns 18.
To help a child
April 12, 2019 12:14 pm
Delhi’s 10 child welfare committees, tasked with rehabilitating 10,000 lost or rescued children every year, are often pulled up by city’s courts. But with limited autonomy, insufficient training for its members and frequent jurisdictional tussles, the road ahead remains uphill. Abhishek Angad reports:
Amendment to JJ Act in offing; DMs, collectors to be competent officers for approving adoptions: Maneka
July 17, 2018 9:19 pm
Around 2,300 CCIs are linked to CARA, while another 4,000 remain pending for linkage. Gandhi brought to notice that the 2,300 institutions linked to CARA were not under an adoption system.
Chandigarh: Woman to face trial for assault on five-yr-old stepdaughter
May 18, 2018 4:51 am
Kaur had been booked for assaulting her stepdaughter and fracturing her leg. She was videographed carrying out the assault by her stepson, the own brother of the five-year-old victim.
Principal booked for ‘mentally torturing’ primary students
November 29, 2017 4:07 am
Parents of the students approached the police last week, alleging that their children had been treated differently and cruelly by school teachers and the principal.
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