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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
Uttar Pradesh: Dalit school children thrashed, made to sit separately in Amethi
Second case of discrimination in a week, exposes deep caste based prejudices in the state’s schools
UP: NHRC sets up inquiry in minor boy’s death by suicide after spending 3 months in jail
The Commission has questioned whether the police and the court followed proper procedure to determine the juvenility of the young boy. Meanwhile FIR for abetment of suicide has been filed against the policemen
Over 1.28 lakh cases of crime against children in 2020, yet there is eerie silence on issue
Horrific details of the Dalit child’s rape and murder in Delhi crematorium by priest emerge, news of another child raped in Rajasthan reported
Rajasthan: New marriage registration bill legitimises child marriage?
The bill states that if a groom is not 21 years and the bride is not 18 years old, their parents or guardians can register the marriage
At least 16 dengue deaths within 3 days in UP
Families faced with lack of hospital beds in dengue-ridden districts like Firozabad and Gorakhpur
Myanmar refugee children can now go to school in Mizoram
The north-eastern state permitted admission to school for the children on humanitarian grounds
22 children of foreign nationals living in Assam Detention Camps!
The children are living with their mothers - nine women who are believed to hail from Myanmar and Bangladesh - lodged in three out of six detention camps
Over 8,000 children died by suicide in 2019: Centre
There is also a rising trend in the number of suicides due to unemployment, and amongst students from 2016 to 2019
Child labour still prevalent in India
58,289 children have been rescued or rehabilitated between 2020 to 2021, 770 cases registered under Prohibition of Child Labour Act in 2019
Covid orphans: Mismatch in figures provided by WCD Ministry and NCPCR
While WCD Min says only 645 children lost their parents, NCPCR pegs the number at over 3,000!
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