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2020 Supreme(SC) 735

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. Advocate (A.C.), Ms. Uttara Babbar, Adv., Ms. Bhavana Duhoon, Adv., Mr. Manan Bansal, Adv., Mr. Krishna Dev Jagarlamudi, Adv., Mr. Surinder S. Rathi, Registrar, SC
For the Respondents: Ms. Neela Gokhale, Adv., Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv., Mr. S.S. Rebello, Adv., Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv., Mr. N.K. Gokhale, Adv., Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv., Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, Adv. Mr. G.S. Makker, Adv. Mr. Manish, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. S.. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Ms. Swati Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Rahul Raj Mishra, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Satyendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Arpit Prakash, Adv. Mr. D.K. Devesh, Adv. Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR Mr. Prashant K. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Jenis Francis, Adv. Mr. Ravi Sagar, Adv. Mr. Hari Kumar V., Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Arshiya Ghose, Adv. Mr. Divyansh Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Diksha Rai, Adv. Mr. Palak Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Vinay Arora, AOR Mr. Harpuneet Singh Rai, Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, Adv. Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Pravar Veer Misra, Adv. Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Ms. Aarzoo Aneja, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. Mrinal K. Mondal, Adv. Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv. Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Ankit Goel, AOR Mr. R.K. Gupta, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Renjith B. Marar, Adv. Ms. Lakshmi N. Kaimal, AOR Mr. A. Karthik, Adv. Mr. Mahendra Kumawar, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. V. G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Ms. Radhika Gautam, AOR Mr. K. Parameshwar, AOR Mr. M.V. Mukunda, Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Shaurya Sahay, Adv. Mr. P.S. Negi, Adv. Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. S. Ram Kochar, Adv. Mr. Chetan Joshi, Adv. Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv. Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, AOR Ms. Shrutee Aradhana, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Mr. Ramesh Babu, Adv. Mr. R. P. Gupta, AOR Mr. Jayanth Muth Raj, Sr. Adv. Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Ms. Uma Prasuna Bachu, Adv. Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Ms. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Shubhali Pathak, Adv. Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Devansh Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Intervenor-in-person Mr. Arun R. Pedneker, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mukti Chowdhary, AOR Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Ms. Geetanjali, Adv. M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR Ms. Sweety Singh, Adv. Ms. Archana Kumari, Adv. Mr. Rahul Pandey, Adv. Mr. Pravin H. Parekh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Tanya Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Nitika Pandey, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Ramdev, Adv. Ms. Ashna Bhatnagar, Adv. M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Prem Sunder Jha, AOR Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. Rahul Kaushik, AOR Ms. Bhuvneshwari Pathak, Adv. Ms. Shilpi Satyapriya Satyam, Adv. Mr. Rahul Khatri, Adv. Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr. A. Rajarajan, Adv. Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv. Mr. Vishal Prasad, Adv. Mr. Abishek Manchanda, Adv. M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. G. Prakash, AOR Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv. Ms. Priyanka Prakash, Adv. Ms. Beena Prakash, Adv. Mr. Gopal Prasad, AOR Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv. Ms. Shalya Agarwal, Adv. Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Mr. Digvijay Harichandan, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Goel, AOR Mr. Vinay Mathew, Adv. Mr. Dushyant Savne, Adv. Mr. Sarvesh Baghel, Adv. Mr. Dhirendra Singh Parmar, Adv. Ms. Harshita Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. Srinivas Vishven, Adv. Ms. Garima Prashad, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Samarth Khanna, Adv. Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv. Mr. Anand Kr. Dubey, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Annam D. N. Rao, AOR Mr. Annam Venkatesh, Adv. Mr. Rahul Mishra, Adv. Ms. Sangeetha MR, Adv. Mr. Avni Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ananya Kandelwal, Adv. Mr. Amber Sachdeva, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, AOR Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Ms. Upma Bhattacharjee, Adv. Mr. Siddharth, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. R. Nedumaran, AOR Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Parth Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Jamnesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vikas Mahajan, AAG Mr. Aakash Varma, Adv. Mr. Vinod Sharma, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Jain, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Mr. Annikanissar Sayeed, Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kr. Singla, Adv. Mr. Chandra Bhusan Prasad, Adv. Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv. Mr. Deniel Stone Lyngdoh, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Mr. Sachin Patil, Adv. Mr. Rahul Chitnis, Adv. Mr. Geo Goseph, Adv. Mr. D. Rama Krishna Reddy, Adv. Ms. Poonam Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Gagan Deep Kaur, Adv.

ORDER :

1. Despite our order dated 16th December, 2019, the States of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, NCT of Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Punjab and Rajasthan have not filed their affidavits so for. On behalf of the State of Punjab, it is stated that the State does not intend to file any further affidavit and relies on the affidavit filed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. As far as other States are concerned, as prayed, ten days’ time is granted to file the affidavit. In case the same is not filed on or before 18th March, 2020, the Chief Secretarys of the concerned States shall remain present on the next date of hearing.

2. List the matter on 24th March, 2020.

3. In the meantime, learned amicus curiae to prepare a comparative chart.

4. On the next date of hearing, we shall consider the issue of framing a national scheme for payment of compensation to victims of offences under the POCSO Act.

5. For this purpose, we request the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India to remain present in Court to assist us with regard to the formulation of scheme for payment of compensation to the victims.

6. Mr. V. Giri, learned amicus curiae, states that in s

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