i. State of the statutory structures for administration of juvenile justice All the four states covered under the study have set up Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) in all the districts. However, functioning of the JJBs is plagued with huge number of pending cases. There were nearly 14,000 cases were pending before the JJBs in Madhya […]
This report chronicles as to how India failed UN human rights test during the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India’s human rights record held on 24th May 2012 during the 13 th Session of the UPR of the Human Rights Council. The UPR is a unique process under which human rights records of all […]
Children constitute 17.34 per cent of Mizoram’s total population. Mizoram may be a small state in terms of population and area, but the percentage of both child abuse and crimes committed by juveniles is quite high. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India in its “Study on Child Abuse: INDIA 2007” ranked […]
The State of Assam has been consistently ranking top in juvenile delinquency among the eight north eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. In 2011, Assam topped the list with 405 cases (402 of IPC crimes and 3 SLL crimes), followed by Meghalaya with 98 IPC crimes, Arunachal Pradesh […]
‘If a conservative estimate of 15% is used in “bribes to process applications” then during the FYs 2002-2003 to 2008-2009 at least Rs 998,15,38,153 or Rs. 142,59,34,022 per year were removed from funds to the poor and given in bribes to different layers of officials approving the projects. This is literally stealing the money of […]
Madhya Pradesh faces serious problems with juvenile delinquency. Among the states of India, Madhya Pradesh has been topping the list of “juvenile crimes” under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) from 2005 to 2011 except in 2009 during which it ranked second after Maharashtra. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under the Ministry of […]
On 22nd February 2011, the State Government of Manipur in its presentation to the Project Approval Board of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development stated that “there are more than 3000 children in difficult circumstances in Manipur which includes children affected by armed conflict, ethnic clashes, orphan children […]
Himachal Pradesh faces substantial problems with juvenile delinquency but the implementation of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children Act), 2000 [hereinafter referred to as JJ(C&PC)] remains very poor. According to the data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Himachal Pradesh registered 159 cases of juvenile delinquency […]
Since 20 July 2012, the riots in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) consisting of Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar and Udalgiri districts, and neighbouring Dhubri district of Assam have claimed about 90 lives as on 31 August 2012 and displaced over 400,000 people. This internal displacement has been variedly described as the largest one since India’s […]
