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J&K juvenile justice panel to revisit probe
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- The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked a juvenile justice committee of four senior judges of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to revisit their enquiry into allegations of preventive detention of children by security forces, saying time constraints may have earlier handicapped the committee’s ability to independently apply its mind to the task.
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- SC had ordered the committee led by Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey to enquire into the reports in international and domestic media that children were detained after the August 5 lockdown that followed the dilution of Article 370.
- Petition Filed brought the Report to the attention of court
(1) Report filed in October by the committee, as per petition merely reproduced the information provided by the J&K police chief without any independent application of mind by the judges.
(2) Report mentions that “no child has been kept or taken into illegal detention by police authorities” and juveniles found in conflict with the law were “strictly dealt in accordance with the Juvenile Justice Act.”
- Bench accepted that the committee did not elaborately delve into the allegations of children in preventive detentions.
Sources
The Hindu