National Commission For Protection Of Child Rights vs. Rajesh Kumar

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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

SMW (CRL.) NO. 1/2019

IN RE ALARMING RISE IN THE NUMBER OF Petitioner(s) REPORTED CHILD RAPE INCIDENTS

VERSUS

Respondent(s)

	(IA No. 135383/2019 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION<br>IA No. 132386/2019 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION
	IA No. 132388/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.
	IA No. 143390/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION
	IA No. 132359/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT
	IA No. 135378/2019 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON)
<b>WITH</b>
SLP(C) No. 34251/2017 (XVI)
	(IA No. 140212/2019 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM PAYMENT OF<br>COSTS, IA No. 139570/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)
W.P.(C) No. 819/2019 (PIL-W)
	Date: 01-10-2019 These matters were called on
	for hearing today.
CORAM :	HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA
	HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIRUDDHA BOSE
	Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. (AC)
	Ms. S. Shankar, Adv.
	Ms. Uttara Babbar, Adv.
	Ms. Bhavana Duhoon, Adv.
	Mr. Manan Bansal, Adv.
	Mr. Krishna Dev Jagarlamudi, Adv.
Counsel for the
$\frac{1}{2}$ parties	Mr. Surinder S. Rathi, Registrar, SCI

Mr. Rakesh Kumar Singh, DJS officer

Mr. ANS Nadkarni, SG Ms. Anindita Pujari, AOR Ms. Nidhi Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Raman Kumar Gaur, Adv. Mr. Om Narayan, Adv. Ms. Shivikka Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Santosh Rebello, Adv. Ms. Arzu Paul, Adv. Mr. Neeleshwar Pavani, Adv. Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Manoj V. George, Adv. Ms. Shilpa Liza George, Adv. Mr.Aakarsh Kamra, AOR Mr. K.M. Vignesh, Adv. Mr. ANS Nadkarni, ASG Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. S.S. Rebello, Adv. Mr. A. Paul, Adv. Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Neeleshwar Pavani, Adv. Ms. Shivikka Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Neera Kedar Gokhale, Adv. Ms. Swati G., Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv. Mr. R.R. Rajesh, Adv. Ms. Neela Gokhale, Adv. Mr. Ilam Paridi, Adv. Mr. G.S. Makker, Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Barr, Adv. Mr. Viren Sibal, Adv. Mr. Regisnalik Val Salan, Adv. Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR Mr. Palak Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Mr. Satyendra Kumar Srivastava, Adv. Dr. Rajesh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Pandey, Adv. Ms. Tanuja Manjari Patra, Adv. Ms. Shweta Mulchandani, Adv. Mr. Manoj Selvaraj S., Adv. Ms. Aswathi M.K, AOR

Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Monendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Vikas Mahajan, AAG Mr. Vinod Sharma, AOR Mr. Aakash Varma, Adv. Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh, AOR Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Maibam Babina, Adv. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, AOR Mr. Ankit Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Adv. Ms. Arshiya Ghose, Adv. Mr. Divyansh Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Shourajeet Chauravarty, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. S. Debabrata Reddy, Adv. Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel, Adv. Ms. Garima Prashad, AOR Mr. Pranav Kashyap, Adv. Ms. Rishi Ray Sharma, Adv. Ms. Saumya Jaykaran Singh, Adv. Ms. Harshita Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. D.S. Parmar, Adv. Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv.

Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv. Ms. Kajal Dalal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Manchanda, Adv. Mr. Prastut Dalvi, Adv. Ms. Disha W., Adv. Mr. Paras Nath S., Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv. Ms. Nehmat Kaur, Adv. for M/S. PLR Chambers And Co., AOR Mr. Vinay Arora, AOR Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Saurav Gupta, Adv. Mr. Swapratik Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Siddiqu A Parveen, Adv. Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Mr. deepanwita Priyanka, Adv. Mr. A.P. Mayee, Adv. Mr. Gopal Prasad, AOR Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Aprajita Mukherjee, Adv. Mt. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv. Mr. Deniel Stone, Adv. Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, AOR Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Ms. Swati Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. R.P. Gupta, AOR Intervenor-in-person, AOR Mr. Prem Sunder Jha, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv.

Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Samarth Khanna, Adv. Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose, Adv. Mr. Sataroop Das, Adv. Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Ms. Aarzoo Aneja, Adv. Mr. Piyush Dwivedi, AOR Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, AOR Ms. Mandakini Singh, Adv. Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. S. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv. Mr. Raghuvendra Kumar, Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Navendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Mr. Amit Arora, Adv. for M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Arun R Pedneker, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kr. Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mukti Chowdhary, Adv. Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, Adv. Mr. Mahfooz Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Arvind Anand, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Satyendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Shailja Nanda Mishra, Adv. Mr. Harsha Vinoy, Adv. Mr. Arpit Parkash, Adv. Mr. G. Prakash, Adv. Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv. Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Adv. Mrs. Beena Prakash, Adv. Mr. Nishant R Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Anoop Kandari, Adv.

Ms. G. Indira, AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R SMW (CRL.) No. 1/2019

Notice to all the States and the Registrar Generals of all High Courts in respect of the order dated 25.07.2019 and subsequent orders.

The States are aware of the said orders since the counsel representing the States are appearing in the connected matter SLP(C) No.34251 of 2017. The States and the RGs of all High Courts are directed to file affidavits on or before 07.11.2019 in which they will set out in chart form the following information:

1. Number of Districts in the State

2. Number of Districts in which the POCSO cases are more than 100

3. Number of Districts where POCSO cases are more than 200 or multiples of 200 i.e. 400, 600, 800 etc.

4. Number of exclusive POCSO Courts already functioning, if any.

5. Number of POCSO Courts actually notified.

6. Number of Special Public Prosecutors, if any, exclusively assigned for POCSO Courts.

Vide order dated 25.07.2019 a direction was given to the Directors of the State Forensic Science

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Laboratories and the concerned authority in the State to ensure that the existing and available Forensic Science Laboratories in each State will function in an effective manner and the Chief Secretaries were directed to ensure that the above directions are complied with. The affidavit to be filed by the State shall also indicate what steps are taken in this regard along with the copies of the communications, if any, sent.

The affidavits shall be filed on the personal affidavit of the Chief Secretary or the Principal Law Secretary on behalf of the State and the RG on behalf of the High Court concerned. The affidavits must be filed on or before 07.11.2019 with advance copy to Mr. Surinder S. Rathi, Registrar and the amicus curiae. We request Mr. Rathi as well as learned counsel assisting the amicus curiae to jointly prepare a chart giving details filed by all the States and the High Courts in one chart.

Mr. A.N.S. Nadkarni, Additional Solicitor General states that affidavit on behalf of the Union of India will be filed during the course of the day.

The Registry is directed to supply copy the order dated 25.07.2019 and today's order to all the counsel representing the States in SLP(C) No.34251 of 2017. Registry to communicate this order along

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with order dated 25.07.2019 to RGs of all the High Courts by email immediately.

All the applications, including applications for waiver of costs shall also be taken on the next date of hearing.

List on 14.11.2019.

SLP(C) No. 34251/2017, W.P.(C) No. 819/2019

Heard in part.

For continuation of arguments, list on 03.10.2019 as part-heard.

[ CHARANJEET KAUR ] [ RENU KAPOOR ] A.R.-CUM-P.S. COURT MASTER