According to Mizoram Police, based on intelligence input, Lunglei District Special Branch (DSB) team on Wednesday conducted an operation between Tlawng bridge - Pukpui and seized 1.747 kg of heroin, valued at Rs 8.735 crore in the international market, from the possession of two persons named Khupkhankual (25 years old) and Haudeihchin (25 years old).

New Delhi [India], September 26 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a plea of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights challenging the recent amendments to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 by which some serious offences against children have been made non-cognizable.

New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights has approached the Supreme Court challenging the amendments to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act last year by which some serious offences against children have been made non-cognizable.

New Delhi, March 23: In another instance of Crime against minors, a 42-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly beating up and sexually assaulting a minor boy in Delhi’s Dwarka area, according to the police. Delhi Shocker: Woman Held For Allegedly Thrashing, Sexually Assaulting 8-Year-Old Boy in Dwarka The police said the complainant, an eight-year-old […]

New Delhi Feb 25 PTI A woman approached the Delhi High Court on Friday claiming that her minor daughter was subjected cruelty and forcibly converted to another religion in a child care institution where she was remanded by the Child Welfare Committee CWCA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice and sought response from the Centre and Delhi government on the petition which has also sought a compensation of Rs 5 crore for violation of fundamental rights of the petitioner and her minor daughterThe court granted time to the authorities to respond and listed the matter for further hearing on April 9The plea challenged various provisions of the Juvenile Justice Care and Protection Act JJ Model Rules pertaining to power functions and composition of CWCsThe plea alleged that provisions of the JJ Act confer arbitrary powers on the CWC that led to violation of the fundamental rights of the woman and her daughterIt claimed that the womans minor daughter was trapped by social workers of two NGOs and a false FIR of sexual abuse of the child was registered and the girl was produced before the CWC after five days in contravention to the JJ Model RulesThe plea alleged that the child was arbitrarily sent into institutional care where she was indoctrinated in Christianity without her mothers consent and was also subjected to cruelty and exploitation for more than five monthsThe petition challenged the grant of exclusive powers on CWCs to deal with all proceedings relating to children in need of care and protection under the JJ Act and termed it arbitraryIt further said that Rule 55 2 of the Model Rules is arbitrary as there is no way a child in need of care and protection placed under institutional care can reach the childrens court for relief on being subjected to cruelty inside the institution PTI SKV SA

New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has written to Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani against the recent amendment to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, classifying serious offences against children as non-cognisable. Chaturvedi has argued that the changes in the law will have a "devastating impact on children as it shields their perpetrators".

New Delhi [India], December 21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi government to furnish the number of juveniles, who were transferred from adult jails to juvenile justice homes or child care institutions in the last five years "to better understand the systemic flaws" that lead to "delinquent children/juveniles ending-up in adult jails."

New Delhi [India], November 6 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has issued various directions for streamlining the process of inquiries relating to minors in conflict with the law, and for scrupulous compliance by all concerned authorities.

New Delhi [India], October 12 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the state government over not taking any steps relating to termination of inquiries, alleging petty offences against juveniles, which are pending and remains inconclusive for longer than one year, before the Juvenile Justice Boards (JJB).