Tag: Juvenile Justice Act
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One Stop Centres: A well intentioned Scheme gone awry?
By Ria Goyal, Ambedkar University, Delhi. The One Stop Centre Scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India. One Stop Centres set up under this initiative are to be funded from the INR 1000 Crore Nirbhaya Fund which was set up in 2013 to fund various…
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Juvenile Justice Act 2015: A Ground-breaking Adoption or a Dicey Alteration
By Anjana Mohan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. After years of constant discussion and arguments on whether to replace the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and giving an apt description to who is a child and how can a child in conflict be tried under different scenarios of committing heinous crimes after the…
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Should Juvenile Justice Law be changed?
By Madhvi Chopra, VIPS, GGSIPU, New Delhi. A “juvenile” means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age. A boy or girl under eighteen years of age is a “juvenile” according to the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA), 2000. Earlier, according to the JJA, 1986, the age of boys and girls were different, but…