-The Hindustan Times New Delhi: For a long time, 12- year-old Rohan, an HIV positive child, was in pain but could not comprehend why. For months, he passed blood with his stools. Finally, a counsellor drew a sketch after Rohan pointed to his mouth and back and the truth emerged: He was regularly being forced into oral and anal sex. Rohan then drew a picture of Ashish, one of his co-inmates at...
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Push for child law review -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph The country's apex child rights body has acknowledged that the laws on children are contradictory and initiated the process of a review. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has decided to set up a three-member working group to harmonise the laws and remove conflicting provisions. "The commission has observed that there are many gaps and discrepancies in various laws concerning the rights of children. The commission is, therefore,...
More »Crime records bureau data is all about cases registered only under laws till 1998 -Aditya Bharadwaj
-The Hindu NCRB officials blame it on old pro forma used to collect data Bangalore: The only official nationwide data of incidence of crimes, published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), shockingly does not reflect data on cases registered under many of the new laws enacted and laws amended by Parliament since 1998. NCRB officials blamed the anomaly on an old pro forma that they use to collect and collate data from...
More »Hyderabad cops wake up to handling juvenile cases sensitively -Mahesh Buddi
-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...
More »India bill to try minors as adults after Delhi gang rape
-BBC India's cabinet has approved a bill to allow children over 16 to be tried as adults for crimes like rape and murder. The move follows calls for stricter punishment for juveniles after a 17-year-old was among those convicted of gang rape and murder in Delhi in 2012. At present, juvenile courts can jail those under 18 for at most three years. Under the bill, minors convicted in adult courts would face longer jail...
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