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A revamped Juvenile Justice Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on 7 May 2015. The new bill will allow minors in the age group of 16-18 to be tried as adults if they commit heinous crimes. The heinous crime will be examined by the Juvenile Justice Board to ascertain if the crime was committed as a 'child' or an 'adult'. [14] [15]
This law, brought in compliance of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), repealed the earlier Juvenile Justice Act of 1986 after India signed and ratified the UNCRC in 1992. In the wake of Delhi gang rape (16 Dec 2012), the law suffered a nationwide criticism owing to its helplessness against crimes where juveniles get ...
The Juvenile Justice Board has faced criticism in the trial of the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder. The juvenile defendant Mohammed Afroz was not allowed to be trial as adult, with the JJB rejecting the plea of Delhi Police to conduct a bone ossification test. [ 13 ]
A Child Welfare Committee is an autonomous institution in India formed under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 to handle and resolve complaints relating to children who are either abandoned, orphaned, voluntarily given away by parents, or lost and who are in need of care on issues relating to growth, protection, treatment, development, and rehabilitation, and includes provision of requirements ...
The Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) is a governmental program implemented by the Government Of India to help secure the safety of children, with a special emphasis on children in need of care and protection, juveniles in conflict or contact with the law and other vulnerable children. Its primary purpose is to create a central ...
Census data from 2011 shows that India has a population of 472 million children below the age of eighteen. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Protection of children by the state is guaranteed to Indian citizens by an expansive reading of Article 21 of the Indian constitution, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and also mandated given India's status as signatory to the UN Convention on ...
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice [8] Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power [9] Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary [10] Model Agreement on the Transfer of Foreign Prisoners [11] Milan Plan of Action; 8th Congress [5] 1990 Havana, Cuba ...
He notes, "determining the extent to which the hand-made carpet supply chain from India to the U.S.A. is tainted by slavery and child labour requires an additional exercise in supply chain tracing." [ 69 ] Kara's study also finds variation in child labour practices between ethnic and religious groups.