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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Hyderabad cops wake up to handling juvenile cases sensitively -Mahesh Buddi

Hyderabad cops wake up to handling juvenile cases sensitively -Mahesh Buddi

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published Published on Aug 21, 2014   modified Modified on Aug 21, 2014
-The Times of India


HYDERABAD: Police have finally become sensitive to juvenile offenders and victims, with cops now being trained to be appointed as special juvenile police officers (SJPO) at law and order police stations.

As per the recently published National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, the united Andhra Pradesh stood third after Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in number of juvenile offenders sent to court. In 2013, the Andhra Pradesh police had apprehended 3,133 juveniles and sent them to courts. During the corresponding period, 8,012 juvenile offenders were produced in courts in Maharashtra and 7,365 in Madhya Pradesh.

Of the 3,133 cases, nearly 50 per cent (1,120) were registered in the two police commissionerates in Greater Hyderabad.

Despite registering so many cases against juvenile offenders, there was no proper system at police stations till recently to handle the juvenile culprits. As per the Supreme Court order on January 17, 2013, every police station should have an SJPO to handle juvenile offenders and victims.

The officer should be at least of the rank of sub-inspector or above and he should be in plainclothes. In view of the apex court order, city police have designated SJPOs at each police station, but due to lack of awareness about the Juvenile Justice Act, the orders were not implemented in spirit.

For example, four months ago 11-year-old Papalal was apprehended by the Central Crime Station (CCS) team of the Cyberabad police at Pahadesharif in multiple property offences and he was taken to the II Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Ranga Reddy district in handcuffs. After the intervention of an NGO, the court reprimanded the police. The boy, who does not have parents, was then sent to a juvenile home.

Similarly, law and order police personnel of SR Nagar and Chaitanyapuri were initially reluctant to take action when cases of corporal punishment were brought to their notice by parents. Finally, the State Child Rights Commission had to intervene.

"We receive three to four complaints every week from students about corporal punishment and other kinds of abuse at educational institutions. Victims are scared to approach police. In several situations, a case was registered only after intervention of the commission. Most police officers do not know that even humiliating a student by making him or her stand or by send him or her out of the classroom is an offence as per the Juvenile Justice Act," State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) member Achyuta Rao told TOI.

In view of the situation, the Hyderabad police have finally decided to make their staff aware about the Juvenile Justice Act. "We have appointed SJPOs at each law and order police station and the members of Juvenile Justice Board are training them about how to handle juvenile offenders and victims. They are being explained about the Act," DCP of CCS, G Pala Raju said.


The Times of India, 21 August, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Hyderabad-cops-wake-up-to-handling-juvenile-cases-sensitively/articleshow/40530401.cms


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