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As per Section 2(57) and Section 65 of Juvenile Justice(Care and Protection of Children) Act,  2015, [JJ Act] each State/UTs is to establish/recognize one or more “Specialised Adoption Agency” (SAA) in each district for housing orphans, abandoned and surrendered children, placed there by order of the Committee, for the purpose of adoption. Further a..

There are 701 Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) in the country which are supported under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) of the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The primary responsibility of setting up the JJBs vests with the State Governments/UT Administrations concerned. Section 4 (1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Chi..

More than 1700 Special Juvenile Police Units(SJPUs) have been established in the country. Each district and city in the country has atleast one SJPU. The Police officers of the Special Juvenile Police Unit are trained by their respective State Governments and State Police Academies. A m..

  Ministry of WCD issued advisories to all States/UTs to ensure effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act. In order to ensure the effective implementation of the ..

Let me begin at the very beginning by expressing my utmost and deepest sympathies with the families of those three young stone pelters - Suhail Lone, Javid Bhat and Rayees Ahmed in their 20s who were killed in firing by army soldiers in Shopian in South Kashmir. The families lives stands completely devastated and nothing can compensate for the invaluable loss that t..

To begin with, there can be no worst humiliation of women other than female foeticide wherein a female is killed by none other than her own parents with the help of doctors who for lure of making quick money resort to this kind of worst unethical practice and that too when she is in mother's womb even before she is born! This has been happening in India since ages yet..

Coming straight to the nub of the matter, the Delhi High Court on January 29 issued a notice to the Delhi Government and also to the Delhi Police on a plea of Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) seeking an SIT probe in the dastardly attack on lawyers of DHCBA in separate incidents in January. The Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shanka..

It is a common perception that if you want to get into Litigation, it will take minimum of 5 years for you to establish yourself. The prima-facie argument for this is learning the court proceedings and the technicality involved is a time consuming process. The advocate under whom you would practice might spend a significant amount of time to train you and while he is ..

Let me begin at the very beginning by first and foremost pointing out cogently that in a big blow to Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), President Ram Nath Kovind approved the Election Commission's recommendation to disqualify 20 party MLAs for violating the law against holding the office of profit as Parliamentary Secretaries. This was disclosed in a government not..

The Part II of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 deals with different facets of oral and documentary methods of proving facts in a judicial proceeding. The precise purpose of this write up is to describe the contents of Part II of the act in an easy to read manner. The Part I of the act describes the concepts of relevance and admissibi..

An advocate is deemed to have graduated in law from a law college or university in our country. He is not supposed to be a graduate in typewriting or shorthand! It is unwritten practice amongst the gentlemen senior advocates that they are committed in moulding their junior advocates in their initial years to the professional life while inducting them to their office..

As my pen starts running, I must note right now with great satisfaction that the Supreme Court on January 16 warned strongly in no uncertain terms that it would step in if the government didn't bring a law to ban illegal activities of khap panchayats, saying no one had the right to question an adult's choice of a marriage partner. Why government is always quick to l..

It is rightfully to be agreed upon the version that the touching of a woman, even during her fast sleep, is and being recognized by her sixth sense even BY more senses, she reacts to the touch with utmost care and caution before awarding any type of activity, jerks off the bandit, tactful or with force of anything she came into contact. This is a born quality of the w..

How can Karni Sena made up of few totally orthodox self-styled Rajputs no matter what the provocations are indulge in ordering its members to forcibly stop showing of film Padmaavat? How can they decide that which film is to be shown and which film is not to be shown? How can they decide that what should be shown in a film and what should not be shown in a film?..

To begin with, the name of senior advocate Indu Malhotra will always be written in golden letters in the pages of record books and history as she becomes the first woman lawyer in India to be directly elevated as Supreme Court Judge from the Bar. It would be pertinent to mention here that her name was unanimously cleared by the Supreme Court collegium which met on Jan..