Bachpan Bachao Andolan vs. Union Of India

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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

<pre>Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 427/2022</pre>

BACHPAN BACHAO ANDOLAN

Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

Respondent $(s)$

(IA NO. 83391/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)

• Date: 19-09-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today.
• CORAM : HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE INDIRA BANERJEE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. SUNDRESH
• Mr. H.S. Phoolka, Sr. Adv. For Petitioner(s) Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Ms. Rachan Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Saksham Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Bindita Chaturvedi, Adv.
• For Respondent(s) Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, LD. ASG

  • Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. Adv. (AAG) Mr. Rohit K. Singh, AOR Mr. Pritam Bishwas, Adv. Mr. Kislay Jha, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Gupta, Adv.

  • Mr. Samarth Srivastava, Adv.

  • Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR

  • Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR

  • Mr. Debojit Borkakati, AOR

  • Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR

  • Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Advocate

  • Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR

  • Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv.

  • Ms. Anupam Ngangom, Adv.

  • Mr. Wahengbam Immanuel Meitei, Adv.

Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG Ms. Neela Kedar Gokhale, Adv. Ms. Praveena Gautam, Adv. Ms. Shagun Thakur, Adv. Ms. Poornima Singh, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Ms. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Ms. Sweena Nair, Adv. Mr. P. Mohith Rao, Adv. Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv. Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. K.V. Girish Chowdhary, Adv. Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Ms. Yeshi Rinchhen, Adv. Ms. Vani Vandana Chhetri, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mishra, Adv. Ms. Nishi Sangtani, Adv. Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Dr. Manish Singhvi, Senior Advocate Mr. Arpit Parkash Advocate Mr. Vikalp Sharma, Advocate Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Ms. Nupur Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shobhit Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Mahara, Adv. Ms. Neela kedar Gokhle, Adv. Ms. Praveena Gautam, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. akshay Shrivastava, Adv. Ms. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv.

Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR

Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv. Mr. Kynpham V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv. Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Akash Singh, Adv. Mr. Nihar Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Shubhranshu Padhi, Adv. Mr. Vishal Banshal, Adv. Ms. Rajeshwari Shankar, Adv. Mr. Niroop Sukrithy, Adv. Mr. Ovais Mohd., Adv. Mr. Kumar Anurag Singh, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Langar, AOR Dr. Monika Gusain, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

We have perused the report submitted by the Principal District Judge, Khandwa. On going through the report, we find that the girl is being educated at a school, where she is happily inter-mingling with other students, attentive in class, taking interest in pursuing her studies and moving on in life. She told the lLady Magistrate who visited her that she wanted to become a teacher in future. She had no complaints. No further action need be taken so far as the girl is concerned.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the NALSA submits that the scheme for empanelment of para legal volunteers in Police Stations for missing children, framed by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority has been circulated to all the State Legal Services Authorities and also to the Legal Services Authorities of the Union Territories, as a model, so that appropriate schemes might be framed for appointment of para legal volunteers in police stations in respect of for missing children and other offences against children in the States and Union Territories using the Delhi scheme as a model scheme with appropriate modifications.

We direct the respective State Legal Services Authorities/Legal Services Authorities of the Union Territories to frame schemes for appointment of para-legal volunteers in police stations for missing children and other offences against children at the earliest and, in any case, within three months from date.

Needless to mention that the respective State Governments/Union Government shall make funds available for implementation of the scheme so prepared at the earliest and within three months from the date of implementation of the schemes.

Let this writ petition be listed along with Writ Petition (C) No. 1156 of 2021 which is listed in the Court presided over by Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India.

(GULSHAN KUMAR ARORA) (MATHEW ABRAHAM)

AR-CUM-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)

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