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Mar 15, 2021 · The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2021 was introduced in Lok Sabha on March 15, 2021 and is currently pending in Rajya Sabha. 3 The Bill amends the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. [3]
AMENDMENT ACT, 2021 N O. 23 OF 2021 [7 th August , 2021.] An Act to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. B E it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows: 1. (1) This Act may be called the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2021.
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The Juvenile Justice Act Amendment is making it harder to report abuse at child care institutions by making abuse and cruelty by staffers or persons in-charge at Child Care Institutions (CCI) non-cognisable. 1. The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2021 was passed to amend various provisions of the Juvenile Justice A...
Specifically, the amendment under challenge is the one to Section 86 of the JJ Act, according to which crimes under the special law, with punishment between three to seven years, have been reclassi...While the victims themselves are unable to directly report them due to the imbalance in power, most such crimes are reported to the police by either parents or child rights bodies and Child Welfare...Making these crimes non-cognisable along with several other serious crimes under the special law would make reporting an offence to the police even more difficult.According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), since it started recording these crimes in 2017, they had risen by over 700 percent by 2019.The NCRB in 2017 recorded 278 cases of crimes committed by CCI in-chargesacross India involving 328 child victims. These cases rose to 1,968 by 2019, involving as many as 2,699 child victims.Along with addressing the procedural lacunae andensuring faster delivery of justice, there is a need to ease reporting capacity of victims through parents or independent civil society organisations...Specific training in child protection rules should be imparted, as district magistrates usually are not trained or equipped to deal with these specific laws.To ensure safety of the Childrens, District Administration should work in close coordination with all five arms – CWC, JJ Board, CCI, district child protection units and special juvenile police units.The amendment makes abuse and cruelty by staffers or persons in-charge at child care institutions non-cognisable, making it harder to report crimes against children. The article analyzes the provisions, concerns, and legal frameworks of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and its amendment in 2021.
THE JUVENILE JUSTICE (CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN) AMENDMENT BILL, 2021. A. 2 of 2016. BILL. to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. BE it enacted by...
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The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2021, which seeks to amend the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, was passed in the Rajya Sabha, today. The bill was introduced in the Parliament by the Government in the Budget session this year.
The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2021 has been published in Official Gazette on 9th August, 2021 and is pending enforcement by the Central Government since then.
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Mar 25, 2021 · Recently, the Lok Sabha passed the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2021 that seeks to strengthen and streamline the provisions for protection and adoption of children.
