NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR PROTECTION OF CHILD RIGHTS vs RAJESH KUMAR

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2020 Supreme(SC) 26

DEEPAK GUPTA, ANIRUDDHA BOSE
NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR PROTECTION OF CHILD RIGHTS – Appellant
Versus
RAJESH KUMAR – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the parties:G.N.Reddy, T.Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Jaspreet Gogia, Ms. Mandakini Singh, Ms. Ashima Mandla, Ms. Madhvi Kumar Sawant, Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Ms. Meenakshi Gupta, Raghvendra Kumar, Anand Kumar Dubey, Narendra Kumar, Gopal Prasad, Shalya Agarwal, Mrs. K.Enatoli Sema, Amit Kumar Singh, Ranjan Mukherjee, Upendra Mishra, Ms. Aruna Magthur, Avneesh Arputham, Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Ms. Geetanjali, Dr. Anindita Pujari, Ms. Deval Singh, Om Narayan, Ms. Tanushree Luthra, Shuvodeep Roy, Kabir S Bose, S P Das, S.U.K. Sagar, Ms. Swati Bhardwaj, M. Yogesh Kanna, Karthik Rajendran, Ms. Uma P Bachu, Vikas Mahajan,AAG. Vinod Sharma, Aakash Varma, Anil Kumar, Dr. Rajesh Pandey, Ms. Shweta Mulchandani, Ms. Tanuja Manjari Patra, Ms. Aswathi M.K., Siddhesh Kotwal, Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Ms. Arshiya Ghose, Divyansh Tiwari, Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Ranjan Mukherjee, Avijit Triphal M, K.V. Kharlyngdoh, T.K.Mayak, A.P.Mayee, A.Rajarajun, A.Salevin Raja, Charudatta Mahindrakar, Sanjeev Kr. Chaudhary, G.Prakash, Jishnu M.L., Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Mrs. Beena Prakash, V.N.Raghupathy, Manendra Pal Gupta, Saurabh Singh, Gopal Prasad, Jayesh Gaurav, Ms. Shalya Agarwal, Suhaan Mukherji, Ms. Astha Sharmqa, Vishal Prasad, Amit Verma, Ms. Kajal Dalal, Kunal Chatterji, Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Abhinav Mukerji, S.Khanna, Biho Sharma Mukerji, Pratishta Viz, M/S. PLR Chambers And Co., Anil Shrivastav, Ms. Aswathi M.k., Vishal Prasad, Sanjay Kumar Visen, Vinod Sharma, M. Shoeb Alam, Sunny Choudhary, Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Ms. Astha Sharma, Shibashish Misra, Milind Kumar, M. Yogesh Kanna, Ms. Garima Prashad, Vinay Arora, Kunal Chatterji, Guntur Prabhakar, Ms. Diksha Rai, Abhinav Mukerji, Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Gopal Prasad, V. N. Raghupathy, Ranjan Mukherjee, Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, Narendra Kumar, K. V. Vijayakumar, S.. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Gopal Singh, Advocates

JUDGMENT

Deepak Gupta, J.

1. It’s so sad! We start with a lament because institutions set up to protect children have virtually forsaken them in a fight over their so called jurisdictions.

2. India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 which makes it obligatory upon the signatory States to take all necessary steps to protect the rights of the children as set out in the Convention. The Government of India enacted the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000. This was repealed by the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the JJ Act’).

3. It was felt expedient to enact a law constituting special commissions to protect the rights of children. Parliament enacted the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the CPCR Act’). The CPCR Act envisages the constitution of a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (hereinafter referred to as ‘NCPCR/National Commission’) under Section 3 and the State Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (hereinafter referred to as ‘State Commissions’) under Section 17. We shall deal with their res

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2020 Supreme(SC) 26

DEEPAK GUPTA, ANIRUDDHA BOSENATIONAL COMMISSION FOR PROTECTION OF CHILD RIGHTS – AppellantVersusRAJESH KUMAR – Respondent

DEEPAK GUPTA, ANIRUDDHA BOSE
NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR PROTECTION OF CHILD RIGHTS – Appellant
Versus
RAJESH KUMAR – Respondent