Sampurna Behrua vs. Union Of India Ministry Of Human Resources And Development Through Its Secretary

COURT NO.8

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Writ Petition(s) (Civil) No(s). 473/2005

SAMPURNA BEHRUA

Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. $Respondent(s)$ (With applications for exemption from personal appearance of Chief Secretary for the State of Rajasthan and exemption from filing O.T. and interim directions and modification and permission to file additional documents and office report)

Date : 15/02/2016 This petition was called on for hearing today. $CORAM :$ HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MADAN B. LOKUR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA For Petitioner(s) Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Mr. Divya Jyoti Jaipuriar, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR For Respondent(s) Mr. P.S. Patwalia, ASG Mrs. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv. $UOI$ Ms. Natasha Vinayak, Adv. Mr. S. Wasim Qadri, Adv. Ms. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Zaid Ali, Adv. Mr. S.S. Rawat, AOR Mr. Avinash Sharma, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Adv. Mr. Gunwant Dara, Adv. Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR Mr. D.S. Mahra, AOR HRD Mr. Shalinder Saini, Adv. Mr. S.N. Terdal, Adv. Mr. B.V. Balaramdas, Adv. NALSA Mr. Rajesh Kumar Goel, Director NALSA Ms. Indu Malhotra, Sr. Adv.

Aramachal Pradesh Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.

ignature Not Verified

Chhattisgarh Mr. Jugal Kishore Gilda, Adv.

Mr. Gagan Gupta, AOR

	Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhik Chimni, Adv.<br>Ms. Vaishali Dixit, Adv.<br>Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR<br>Mr. A. Selvin Raja, Adv.
	Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, AOR
	Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR
	Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee, AOR
	Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR
Tamil Nadu	Mr. B. Balaji, AOR<br>Mr. Muthvel P., Adv.
	Mr. B. S. Banthia, AOR
M.P.	Mr. C. D. Singh, AOR
	Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR
Tripura	Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR
	Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.
	Ms. Varsha Poddar, Adv.
Bihar	Mr. Gopal Singh, Adv.
	Mr. Manish Kumar, Adv.
Punjab	Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR
	Mr. Gaurav, Adv.
Uttarakhand	Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR
	Mr. Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, AOR
Rajasthan	Mr. Ajay Kapur, AAG
	Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
	Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR
WB	Mr. Debjyoti Basu, Adv.
	Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR
	Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR
Mizoram	Mr. Pragyan Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Ravi Kant Pal, Adv.
	Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR

		Mr. T.L.V. Ramachari, Adv.<br>Mr. K.V.L. Raghavan, Adv.
		Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
		Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, AOR
		Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR
Jharkhand		Mr. Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, AOR<br>Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv.
Orissa		Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR
		Mr. Niranjan Sahu, Adv.
		Mr. Rajive Sinha, Adv.
		Mr. Sudarshan Singh Rawat, AOR
J&K		Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv.
		Ms. Mithu Jain, Adv.
		Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR
		Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR
Puducherry		Mr. V. G. Pragasam, AOR
		Mr. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv.
		Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR
Sikkim		Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv.
		Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv.
		Mr. Yusuf Khan, Adv.
		Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv.
		Mr. Shobhit Nanda, Adv.
	for	M/s Arputham<br>Aruna & Co.
		Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR
Assam		Mr. Riku Sarma, Adv.
		Mr. Navnit Kumar, Adv.
		Ms. Deepika, Adv.
		For M/s Corporate Law Group
A&N		Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv.
		Ms. G. Indira, AOR
		Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Adv.
Gujarat		Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv.
		Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR
		Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, AOR

H.P.	Mr. Suryanaryana Singh, AAG<br>Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR
U.P.	Mr. Gaurav Bhatia, Adv.<br>Mr. Gaurav Srivastava, Adv.<br>Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR<br>Mr. Pawan Shree Aggarwal, Adv.<br>M/s. Venkat Palwai Law Associates
Maharashtra	Mr. Mahaling Pandarge, AAG<br>Mr. Nishant Katneshwarkar, Adv.
M.P.	Mr. Mishra Saurabh, Adv.<br>Mr. Sunny Choudhary, Adv.
AP	Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Adv.<br>Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv.
Telangana	Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv.<br>Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, Adv.
Nagaland	Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv.<br>Mr. Edward Belho, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.
Manipur	Ms. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Adv.<br>Ms. Linthoingam B. Thongam, Adv.<br>Ms. B. Khushbansi, Adv.<br>Mr. Naresh Kr. Gaur, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashok Kr. Singh, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following

O R D E R

There is an application for exemption from personal appearance of the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan. The application is allowed.

We have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the various orders that have been passed by this Court from time to time.

In our opinion, the following issues need serious consideration and deliberations:

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1. Constitution of State Child Protection Society.

2. Constitution of State Commissions for the Protection of Child Rights.

3. Establishment of Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) in every district (if necessary more than one in some districts) and their training.

4. Establishment of Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) and their training.

5. Appointment of Probation Officers and their training.

6. Establishment of Special Juvenile Police Units in every Police Station, their training and updating the Police Training Manual.

7. Provision for legal aid lawyers and their training.

8. Proper selection of members of JJBs and CWCs.

9. Assessment of manpower requirements of JJBs and CWCs and filling up the vacancies.

10. Furnishing of on-line quarterly reports by the State Governments.

11. Significance of Social Investigation Report.

12. Principal Magistrates should exclusively deal with Juvenile Justice inquiries.

13. Registration of child care institutions.

14. Improvement of living conditions in government run child care institutions.

15. Establishment of Juvenile Justice Fund.

Learned Additional Solicitor General says that he will take instructions from the Union of India and will give a final response in ten days' time.

List the matter on 29th February, 2016.

(Meenakshi Kohli) (Jaswinder Kaur) Court Master Court Master

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