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| Children be dealt with in accordance with JK Juvenile Act: HC | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Sept 1: The state high court today directed director general of police to ensure that all children are dealt with in accordance with Jammu and Kashmir Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.
Closing a suo-moto petition initiated by it, a single bench of the court comprising Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar also directed the DGP to ensure that no children was lodged in police stations or lockups. The court also directed all Chief Judicial Magistrates of the state to ensure that the cases against the children covered under the Act are decided at the earliest and such children are not kept in juvenile Homes for any longer period. The single bench of the court also ordered that efforts should be made to return the children to their parents at the earliest. The court also directed J&K government's commissioner secretary Social welfare Department to ensure implementation of the J&K Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act without any fail. The court also directed the government to take steps to live up to the primary re-integrate the children covered under the Act at the earliest. "The legislatures by enacting the Act of 2013 carved out this class of children to be given to the adult offenders in terms of the land," the court said, adding that the duty which the legislature has cast on the executive and judiciary, has to be performed with vibrating zeal and pulsating enthusiasm.
"The child though begetted by the parents belongs to the whole nation. In the hands of the child lies tomorrow of the nation. Today's child not only chisels but shapes the tomorrow of nation," the court said and closed a petition which it had initiated following a newspaper report.
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