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Second Case in a Month: Another minor alleges torture in Gujarat police custody, cop and sanitation worker booked
A viral video showing a sanitation worker pulling out a Muslim minor’s hair as a police constable records and laughs has triggered outrage in Gujarat. This is the second case of alleged custodial torture of a minor in the state within a month, exposing systemic patterns of impunity, cruelty, and disregard for juvenile protection laws
Lockdown impact: Distraught mothers, dead babies and more
Due to the ill-planned lockdown, many have suffered indescribable distress and continue to do so
Did MCGM guidelines about resumption of construction activity ignore female workers and their children?
Guidelines also appear to be anti-poor as they offer freedom of movement to supervisors but expect labourers to stay at the site
SC directs Juvenile courts to consider releasing children allegedly in conflict with law
The order was given in a suo moto case and is replete with directions to followed by CCIs and JJBs
India 131st out of 180 countries on child survival rankings: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet report
The report highlights the various contributors – social, environmental and other, that threaten the lives of children everywhere
How a child’s Slippers were used to terrorize a school: Bidar
Imagine a posse of policemen led by a senior...
NRC Assam: Respite for excluded children if parents are in final list
CJP’s IA had secured the order from the SC that children who were excluded from the final NRC list if their parents’ names are in it not be sent to detention centers
Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police’s investigation of children
They condemned the interrogation of children and the charges of sedition slapped on parent and authorities
CJP’s big win: SC hears petition, orders no children be sent to detention camps in Assam
CJP’s application sought directions from the apex court that drew attention to the Constitutional, legal obligations and prayed, specifically that no child excluded from the NRC is either sent to detention camps nor separated from their parents in Assam.
Breaking! SC on CJP petition: No children be sent to detention camps in Assam
Image Courtesy: thenation.comThe Supreme Court has directed the Assam...
Kota infant death case becomes NHRC’s first case of the year
The infant death toll reached 107 after NHRC took suo moto cognizance of the case and asked for a detailed report.
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