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 […]
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 […]
In the wake of the gruesome rape of a young woman on 16th December 2012 in Delhi, a heated debate has been raging at national level with respect to lowering the age of juveniles to 16 years. On 27th February 2013, the Minister for Women and Child Development told the Rajya Sabha, “We are not […]
