New Delhi, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday released an e-compendium of landmark verdicts of the Supreme Court and high courts relating to the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.
Supreme Court judge A S Chandurkar, who is also a member of the Juvenile Justice Committee, chaired the second session that reviewed the child-protection machinery and non-institutional alternative care. The event brought together judges of the Supreme Court and high courts, directors of state judicial academies, secretaries of women and child development departments and others, including members of juvenile justice boards and child welfare committees, to undertake an evidence-based institutional audit of the first 10 years of the Act’s implementation, a press release issued by the apex court said.
The CJI inaugurated the two-day National Annual Stakeholders Consultation on “Ten Years of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015: Progress, Challenges and Priorities for the Next Decade” convened here by the apex court’s Juvenile Justice Committee, in association with UNICEF India. “The Chief Justice of India formally released an e-compendium of landmark judgments of the Supreme Court of India and high courts relating to the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, capturing jurisprudential developments spanning from 2015 to September 2026,” it said. The release said in her opening remarks, Supreme Court judge B V Nagarathna, who is also the chairperson of the top court’s Juvenile Justice Committee, emphasised the core philosophy of juvenile jurisprudence that “when a child breaks the law, the law must not break the child”. The release said Supreme Court judge J B Pardiwala, who is a member of the Juvenile Justice Committee, chaired the first technical session that deliberated upon substantive and procedural safeguards for children in conflict with law.
