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Correcting the course: Supreme Court’s call to uphold juvenile rights
The judgment reflected the judiciary’s role as a protector of juvenile rights, emphasising that courts must go beyond procedural formalities to uncover the truth
Updated on Jan 13, 2025 02:49 PM IST
15-yr-old slits classmate’s neck in Pune school over petty dispute
The minor came from behind the victim and inflicted a sharp injury on the latter’s neck leading to bleeding
Updated on Nov 22, 2024 08:20 AM IST
Nadeem Inamdar
Noida: Man held for forging papers to bail out son arrested for murder
The girl’s mother alleged before the Juvenile Justice Board that the suspect’s original date of birth was July 10, 1997, and he was a Class 12 graduate from an inter-college in Kanpur
Updated on Nov 12, 2024 05:22 AM IST
Can claim juvenility at any stage: SC frees man sentenced to life
The bench acquitted Brijnandan, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the apex court in 2022 for a murder committed two decades earlier.
Published on Oct 08, 2024 08:29 AM IST
Pune Porsche car crash: Teen submits 300-word essay on road safety
The Porsche car crash which happened in Kalyani Nagar, Pune triggered a nationwide outrage, after the minor was granted bail on lenient terms.
Published on Jul 05, 2024 12:50 PM IST
Criminals are made, not born: SC judge Sanjiv Khanna
Supreme Court judge Sanjiv Khanna inaugurates a pan-India campaign by NALSA to provide legal assistance to juveniles in prisons and secure their freedom from adult jails. The campaign aims to identify potential minors at the time of the offence, help them file necessary applications for claiming juvenility, and facilitate their transfer to child care Institutions.
Updated on Jan 26, 2024 07:14 AM IST
In Chandigarh, no end to 40 hopeful parents’ long adoption wait
Despite Chandigarh administration’s January notification to make child adoption easier, only 11 children adopted in 10 months
Updated on Nov 15, 2023 06:32 AM IST
Hillary Victor, Chandigarh
Now, adopting a child becomes easier in Chandigarh
Chandigarh admn adopts central government’s 2022 notification, allowing district magistrates to issue adoption orders instead of courts
Updated on May 28, 2023 01:49 AM IST
Hillary Victor, Chandigarh
Infuriated over defeat in games, minor boy kills girl in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore
The murder was allegedly committed by smashing the head of the girl with a stone in a vacant plot of land near the housing complex, where the victim and the alleged minor offender lived
Published on Sep 08, 2020 09:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Indore | Neha Jain
Class-11 boy’s suicide in Ludhiana: Add stringent sections to FIR, demands parents’ association
Submits memorandum to police commissioner, ADCP
Published on Dec 03, 2019 10:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
Juvenile board asks minor to recite national anthem before acquittal
The minor was caught by the locals while trying to steal a bag containing money at a bus stand.
Published on Jul 07, 2019 02:19 PM IST
Patna | Reena Sopam
75K ineligible kids, fake entries at child care homes: PAC report slams Maharashtra
The report also slammed the state government for the losses caused to the exchequer owing to “fake students” at the centres.
Updated on Jun 20, 2019 01:57 PM IST
HindustanTimes, Mumbai | HT Correspondent
POCSO among bills to be reintroduced during Parliament session
As per the proposed amendment, a district magistrate’s role will be widened to oversee and monitor implementation of adoption process.
Updated on Jun 17, 2019 08:43 PM IST
New Delhi | Amrita Madhukalya
Father of juvenile accused is pressuring me: Judge
Stating this, Choubey passed a reference order on April 12, a copy of which is with HT. In the order, he wrote some advocates had come to meet him earlier that day.
Updated on Apr 21, 2019 04:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gurugram | Leena Dhankhar
Bombay high court rejects plea of teen who did not want to be tried as adult
The petitioner had questioned the competence of the psychiatrists on the medical board, which submitted a report to the JJB. As per the report, the petitioner was mentally and physically fit at the time of committing the crime and understood the consequences of his action.
Published on Apr 07, 2019 05:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | HT Correspondent
Minor at time of crime, rape accused acquitted
The top court set aside an eight-year-old Punjab and Haryana high court order that convicted the juvenile and two others for gang rape of a 15-year-old girl.
Published on Feb 23, 2019 11:32 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
WCD ministry to formulate norms for children hostels amid crackdown on shelter homes
The WCD ministry has directed the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to draft the guidelines in consultation with all stakeholders concerned. It also plans to have these guidelines notified under the Juvenile Justice Act.
Published on Dec 06, 2018 12:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Anisha Dutta
Odisha shelter home sealed, owner arrested over sexual abuse allegations by minor inmates
The shelter home, which was being operated by NGO Good News India in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district, was sealed on Saturday, a day after a few of its female inmates accused the institute’s founder Fayaz Rehman and caretaker Simanchal Nayak of sexual harassment. Nayak and shelter home’s assistant director Udit Lima were arrested on Saturday.
Updated on Dec 02, 2018 11:58 PM IST
Debabrata Mohanty
Child rights panel’s report on shelter homes frightening: Supreme Court
Referring to the NCPCR‘s social audit report on shelter homes, a bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur said that out of the 2,874 children homes, only 54 have received positive reviews from the body, set up under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.
Updated on Aug 28, 2018 11:28 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Writ against adoption by foreigners
This is the first time that minor girls from Bharatpur are being adopted by couples from foreign countries.
Updated on Jun 28, 2018 10:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bharatpur | HT Correspondent
Ministerial panel okays proposal to make district magistrates final authority in child adoption cases
800 to 850 adoption cases are pending in civil and family courts at any given time.
Updated on Jun 18, 2018 08:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
From clothes and food to bedding: HC details essentials for inmates at homes
The directives are part of order that a division bench of Justices Rajiv Sharma and Sharad Kumar Sharma gave Wednesday while disposing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed in 2016 by Shivangi Gangwar.
Updated on May 24, 2018 10:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Nainital | Neeraj Santoshi
Skill India to transform lives of juveniles in UP
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), the UP home department and the state department of women and child development signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate for creating and implementing various skill development programme for up to 11,000 children in conflict with law, street children and children in need of care and protection in Uttar Pradesh.
Published on May 17, 2018 12:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rajeev Mullick, Lucknow
Father carries newborn for hours in polythene bag, tries to sell her, held
Accused told the police that his wife was sick and he needed money for her treatment.
Updated on May 16, 2018 12:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mohali | HT Correspondent
Man moves court after wife abandons four-month-old girl suffering from erb’s palsy
The woman refused to take the child’s custody for three months to administer her medicines, saying she is allergic to medicines which needed to be given to the child through breast feed and she cannot consume them.
Updated on Apr 30, 2018 08:28 PM IST
Press Trust of India, New Delhi | Press Trust of India