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2019 Supreme(SC) 2318

DEEPAK GUPTA, ANIRUDDHA BOSE
IN RE : ALARMING RISE IN THE NUMBER OF REPORTED CHILD RAPE INCIDENTS – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
Mr. V. Giri,Sr.Adv.(A.C.), Ms. Sudha Shankar,Adv., Ms. Uttara Babbar,AOR, Ms. Bhavana Duhoon,Adv., Mr. Manan Bansal,Adv., Mr. Krishna Dev Jagarlamudi,Adv., Mr. Surinder S. Rathi, Registrar(E-Committee), Mr. Rakesh Kumar Singh, Judicial Officer
For the Petitioners: Mr. Manoj V. George,Adv., Ms. Shilpa Liza George,Adv., Mr. Aakarsh Kamra,AOR, Mr. Renjit V. Philip,Adv.
For the Respondents: Mr. Tushar Mehta,SG, UOI Mr. Atmaram N.S. Nadkarni,ASG, Mr. S.S. Rebello,Adv., Ms. Neela Kedar Gokhale,Adv., Mr. Rajat Nair,Adv., Ms. Swati Ghildiyal,Adv., Mr. R.R. Rajesh,Adv., Ms. Arzu Paul,Adv., Mr. Neeleshwar Pavani,Adv., Ms. Shivikka Aggarwal,Adv., Ms. Riya Soni,Adv., Mr. Manish,Adv., Ms. Shradha Agrawal,Adv., Mr. Ilam Paridi,Adv., Mr. B.V. Balaram Das,AOR, Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav,AOR, Mr. G.S. makker,AOR
State of AP : Mr. G.N. Reddy,AOR, Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy,Adv., Ms. Sujatha Bagadhi,Adv.
State of Arunachal Pradesh : Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari,AOR, Ms. Eliza Bar,Adv.
State of Assam : Ms. Diksha Rai,AOR, Ms. Palak Mahajan,Adv.
State of Bihar : Mr. Abhinav Mukerji,AOR, Ms. Bihu Sharma,Adv., Mr. Samarth Khanna,Adv., Ms. Pratishtha Vij,Adv.
High Court of Patna : Mr. P.H. Parekh,Sr.Adv., Mr. Kshtrashal Raj,Adv., Ms. Pratyusha Priyadarshini,Adv., Ms. Nitika Pandey,Adv., Mr. Nikhil Ramdev,Adv.
Calcutta High Court : Mr. Kunal Chatterji,AOR, Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee,Adv., Mr. Supratik Sarkar,Adv.
State of Chhattisgarh : Dr. Rajesh Pandey,Adv., Ms. Shweta Mulchandani,Adv., Ms. Tanuja Manjari Patra,Adv., Ms. Aswathi M.K.,AOR, Mr. Sumeer Sodhi,AOR, Ms. Aarzoo Aneja,Adv., Mr. Ashish Tiwari,Adv., Ms. Simran Agarwal,Adv.
High Court of Chhatisgarh : Mr. Apoorv Kurup,AOR, Ms. Upama Bhttacharjee,Adv.
Delhi High Court : Mr. Annam D.N. Rao,AOR, Mr. A. Venkatesh,Adv., Mr. Rahul Mishra,Adv., Mr. Avni Sharma,Adv., Ms. Ananya Khandelwal,Adv., Ms. Sangeetha M.R.,Adv.
State of Haryana : Dr. Monika Gusain,AOR
State of HP : Mr. Vikas Mahajan,Adv.(AAG), Mr. Vinod Sharma,AOR, Mr. Joydip Roy,Adv., Mr. Anil Kumar,Adv., Mr. Vishal Mahajan,Adv., Mr. Arun Singh,Adv.
State of Jharkhand : Mr. Gopal Prasad,AOR, Mr. Jayesh Gaurav,Adv., Mr. Shalya Agarwal,Adv.
Jharkhand High Court : Mr. Himanshu Shekhar,AOR, Mr. Parth Shekhar,Adv.
State of Goa : Mr. Arun R. Pedneker,Adv., Mr. Hitesh Kr. Sharma,Adv., Ms. Mukti Chowdhary,AOR
State of Guj. : Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka,AOR, Mr. D. Ramakrishna Reddy,Adv., Ms. Poonam Kaushik,Adv., Ms. Gagan Deep Kaur,Adv., Ms. D. Bharathi Reddy,AOR
High Court of Guj. : Mr. Nikhil Goel,AOR, Ms. Naveen Goel,Adv., Mr. Dushyant Sarna,Adv.
State of Kar. : Mr. V.N. Raghupathy,AOR, Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta,Adv.
State of Kerala : Mr. G. Prakash,AOR, Mr. Jishnu M.L.,Adv., Ms. Priyanka Prakash,Adv.
Ms. Beena Prakash,Adv.
High Court of Kerala : Mr. P.N. Ravindran,Sr.Adv., Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair,AOR
High Court of MP : Mr. Arjun Garg,AOR, Mr. Devansh Srivastav,Adv.
State of Mah. : Mr. Sachin Patil,AOR
High Court of Bombay : Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee,AOR, Mr. A. Rajarajan,Adv., Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Choudhary,Adv.
State of MP : Mr. Rahul Kaushik,AOR
State of Mizoram : Ms. Astha Sharma,AOR, Ms. Bansuri Swaraj,Adv., Ms. Arshiya Ghose,Adv., Mr. Divyansh Tiwari,Adv., Ms. A. Upadhyay,Adv.
State of Meghalaya : Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee,AOR, Mr. Upendra Mishra,Adv., Mr. K.R. Kharlyngdoh,Adv. ,Mr. T.K. Nayak,Adv., Mr. Deniel Stone Lyngdoh,Adv.
High Court of Meghalaya : Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak,AOR, Ms. Shashi Pathak,Adv., Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi,Adv.
State of Nagaland : Ms. K. Enatoli Sema,AOR, Mr. Amit Kumar Singh,Adv., Mr. Gaurav Prakash,Adv.
State of Odisha : Mr. Som Raj Choudhury,AOR, Mr. Prashant Kumar,Adv., Mr. Ravi Prakash Mehrotra,AOR, Mr. Ankit Agarwal,Adv., Mr. Amartya Singh,Adv.
High Court of Orissa : Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra,AOR, Mr. Umakant Mishra,Adv., Mr. Chanakya Gupta,Adv.
State of Pb. : Ms. Jaspreet Gogia,AOR, Ms. Sukhmani Bajwa,Adv., Ms. Mandakini Singh,Adv., Ms. Ashima Mandla,Adv.
High Court of Raj. : Mr. Purushaindra Kaurav,Sr.Adv., Mr. K. Parameshwar,AOR, Mr. M.V. Mukunda,Adv., Mr. Shailja Nanda Mishra,Adv., Mr. Arpit Parkash,Adv., Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha,AOR, Mr. Abhinav S. Raghuvanshi,Adv.
State of Sikkim : Ms. Aruna Mathur,Adv., Mr. Avneesh Arputham,Adv., Ms. Anuradha Arputham,ADv., Ms. Geetanjali,Adv., Mr. Vivek Kohli,Adv., Ms. Yeshirinchhen,Adv., for M/s. Arputham Aruna & Co.,AOR
State of TN : Mr. Jayanth Muth Raj,Sr.Adv., Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna,AOR
State of Tripura : Mr. Shuvodeep Roy,AOR, Mr. Joydip Roy,Adv., Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose,Adv., Mr. Sataroop Das,Adv.
State of UP : Mr. Ranjit Kumar,Sr.Adv., Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel,Adv., Ms. Garima Prashad,AOR, Ms. Harshita Raghuvanshi,Adv., Mr. Srinivas Vishven,Adv.
High Court of Allahabad : Mr. Sunny Choudhary,AOR,
State of Uttarakhand : Mr. Vinay Arora,Adv.(DAG), Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia,AOR, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma,Adv.
State of WB : Mr. Suhaan Mukerji,Adv., Ms. Astha Sharma,Adv., Mr. Amit Verma,Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Manchanda,Adv., Mr. Pastut Dalvi,Adv., for M/s. PLR Chambers & Co.,AOR
UT of Chandigarh : Mr. Ankit Goel,AOR
Govt. of Puducherry : Mr. V.G. Pragasam,AOR, Mr. S. Prabhu Ramasubramanian,Adv.
UT of J&K : Mr. M. Shoeb Alam,AOR, Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan,Adv., Mr. Chanakya Gupta,Adv.
Andaman & Nicobar Admn. : Ms. G. Indira,AOR, Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi,Adv., Mr. Shaurya Sahay,Adv., Mr. T.K. Nayak,Adv., Mr. P.S. Negi,Adv., Ms. Rekha Bakshi,Adv.,Ms. Shruti Ram Kochar,Adv., Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar,AOR, Ms. Swati Bhardwaj,Adv., Mr. Subhasish Mohanty,AOR, Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar,AOR, Mr. Ashok Mathur,AOR, Mr. Gopal Singh,AOR ,Mr. R.P. Gupta,AOR ,Ms. Sneha Kalita,AOR, Mr. Prem Sunder Jha,AOR ,Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh.,AOR, Mr. Milind Kumar,AOR, Mr. R. Nedumaran,AOR, Ms. Radhika Gautam,AOR, Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki,AOR, Mr. Vinay Arora,AOR, Mr. Naresh K. Sharma,AOR, Mr. P.I. Jose,AOR
Intervenor : Mr. Piyush Dwivedi,AOR, In-person
Impleading party : Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Jain,Adv., Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma,Adv., Mr. S.K. Rajora,Adv., Mr. Akhileshwar Jha,Adv., Mr. Anikanissar Sayyed,AOR, Mr. Raghvendra Kumar,Adv., Mr. Anand Kr. Dubey,Adv., Mr. Narendra Kumar,AOR

ORDER :

1. There are three issues being dealt with in this petition but today this Court shall deal with only with issue of setting up of exclusive POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Courts in this Country. On 15.7.2019, this Court had noticed t hat there are large number of POCSO cases pending throughout the country and we had requested that data be collected with regard to the number and pendency of such cases. Thereafter, Shri Surinder S. Rathi, Registrar (E-Committee), Supreme Court of India, had collected information and submitted the same to this Court on 25.7.2019. This Court passed a detailed order on 25.7.2019, relevant portion of which reads as follows:

    "(i) In each district of the country, if there are more than 100 cases under the POCSO Act, an exclusive/designated special Court will be set up, which will try no other offence except those under the POCSO Act.

    (ii) Such Courts will be set up under a Central scheme and will be funded by the Central Government, which fund will not only take care of the appointment of the Presiding Officer, but also the appointments of support persons, Special Public Prosecutors, Court staff and infrastructure including creati

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