{"id":31362,"date":"2018-10-27T13:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31362"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:16:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:46:55","slug":"govt-ignoring-the-plight-of-children-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-ignoring-the-plight-of-children-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. ignoring the plight of children: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/must-read-news-articles-february-12-2018\/v\"><b>Govt. ignoring the plight of children: SC<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has criticised the government for being slow in implementing juvenile justice laws and ignoring the plight of the children<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Highlights of the Judgement:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Social Justice Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta has described the government\u2019s negligence of children<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>This included:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pendency of cases of orphaned, abandoned and surrendered children, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The poor conditions of children in observation and care homes, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The increasing number of vacancies in juvenile justice institutions <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lack of initiatives by legal services authorities despite the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, and its improved version passed in 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bench commented that is high time for the state to strongly and proactively acknowledge that even children in the country have fundamental rights and human rights. These rights and they need to be enforced strongly<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt. ignoring the plight of children: SC Context: The Supreme Court has criticised the government for being slow in implementing juvenile justice laws and ignoring the plight of the children Highlights of the Judgement: The Social Justice Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta has described the government\u2019s negligence of children This included:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-ignoring-the-plight-of-children-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt. ignoring the plight of children: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704857860},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}