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2021 Supreme(SC) 1229

L. NAGESWARA RAO, ANIRUDDHA BOSE
In Re Contagion of Covid 19 Virus In Children Protection Homes – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the parties : By Courts Motion Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR (A.C.)
FOR NCPCR : Mr. K. M. Nataraj, Ld. ASG Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Mohan, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar Adv. Mr. Sanat Garg, Adv. Ms. Neha Rai, Adv.
Union of India : Mr. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Mr. B.V. Balram Das, AOR Mr. S.S. Rebello, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Mr. Prashant Singh B, Adv. Mr. G.S. Makker,Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur, AOR Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Ms. Anitha Shenoy,Sr.Adv. Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, AOR Mr. Abhishek Jebaraj,Adv. Ms. Sanjana Grace Thomas,Adv. Ms. Anmol Gupta,Adv. Mr. Chandratanay Chaube, Adv.
State of Chhattisgarh : Mr. Sumeer Sodhi AOR Mr. Manoj Kumar Singh, AAG Mr. Arjun Nanda,Adv. Mr. Nishant Patil, AOR
State of W.B. : Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv. Mr. Vishaal Prasad, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Parikshith,Adv. Mr. Abhishek Manchanda,Adv. Mr. Sayandeep Pahari, Adv. PLR Chambers & Co.
State of Mizoram : Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay,Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR
State of Haryana : Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, AAG Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR
U.T. of J&K : Mr. G.M.Kawoosa,Adv. Ms. Taruna Ardhendhumauli Prasad, Adv. Mr. Parth Awasthi, Adv. Ms. Shashi Juneja, Adv. Ms. Pinky Behera, AOR Mr. G. M. Kawoosa, Adv.
State of Karnataka : Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Md Apzal Ansari, Adv.
State of Assam : Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR Ms. Palak Mahajan, Adv. Ms. Ragini Pandey, Adv.
State of Assam : Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR
State of A.P. : Mr. Mahfooz A. Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham,Adv. Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef,Adv. Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy,Adv. Mr. Amitabh Sinha, Adv. Mr. K.V. Girish Chowdary, Adv. Mr. Shrey Sharma,Adv
U.T. of Andaman & Nicobar : Mr. K.K. Mondal, Adv. Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, AOR
State of Bihar : Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR
State of H.P. : Mr. Himanshu Tyagi, AOR
State of Arunachal Pradesh : Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, Adv. Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Mr. Pai Amit, AOR
State of Manipur : Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sharan Thakur,Adv. Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Thakur,Adv.
U.T. of Puducherry Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. S. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR
State of Goa : Mr. Arun R. Pedneker, Adv. Ms. Mukti Chowdhary, AOR Dr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR
State of Kerala : Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv. Ms. Priyanka Prakash, Adv. Ms. Beena Prakash, Adv. Mr. G. Prakash, AOR
State of Odisha : Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra AOR
State of Odisha : Dr. Anindita Pujari, AOR Mr. Om Narayan, Adv. Ms. Harpreet Kaur, Adv.
State of Tripura : Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv. Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose,Adv.
State of Gujarat : Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv. Ms. Vishakha,Adv. Mr. A. P. Mayee, Adv.
State of Meghalaya : Mr. Amit Kumar, AG Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. P.S. Negi, Adv. Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv.
State of Punjab : Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, AOR Ms. Mandakini Singh, Adv. Mr. Karanvir Gogia,Adv. Ms. Shivangi Singhal,Adv. Ms. Ashima Mandla, Adv
State of Rajasthan : Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, Adv.
State of U.P. : Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. Adv./AAG Mr. Rohit K. Singh, Adv.
State of Telangana : Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Ms. Sweena Nair, Adv.
State of T.N. : Dr. Joseph Aristotle S.,AOR Mr. Saaketh Kasibhatla, Adv. Mr. D.Kumanan,AOR Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AAG Mr. M.Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Raja Rajeswaran.S,Adv. Mr. Aditya Chada,Adv. Ms. Uma Prasuna Bachu, Adv.
State of Nagaland : Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv.
NCT Delhi : Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR
State of Mah. : Mr. Sachin Patil AOR. Mr. Rahul Chitnis, Adv. Mr. Aaditya A. Pande, Adv Mr. Geo Joseph,Adv.
State of Jharkhand : Ms. Pragya Baghel, Adv Ms. Pallavi Langar, AOR
State of Uttarakhand : Ms. Rachana Srivastava, AOR
State of Sikkim : Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Nishant Verma, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR
State of M.P. : Mr. Pulkit Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Pashupati Nath Razdan, Adv. Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv.
H.C. of Guwahati : Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR
U.T. of Chandigarh : Mr. Ankit Goel, AOR Mr. B.K. Mishra, Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari,AOR Ms. Shobha Gupta, Adv. Ms. Medha Garg, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR M/S. Knc, AOR Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Manoj Swarup, AOR Mr. Abhishek Swarup, Adv. Ms. Lalita Kohli, Adv. Dr. K.S. Bhati, Adv. M/S. Manoj Swarup And Co., AOR

ORDER :

Directions were issued to the State Governments/Union Territories on 07.06.2021 regarding the identification of children who have become orphans or lost a parent after March, 2020 either due to COVID-19 or otherwise and upload the data on the ‘Bal Swaraj’ Portal on the website of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) without any delay. Further directions regarding the identification of the affected children and the steps to be taken by the concerned authorities have been given by the said order.

2. The learned Amicus Curiae focused on two issues during the hearing. The first relates to the identification of the children who have become orphans or lost a parent after March, 2020 and steps taken for their welfare and rehabilitation and the second pertains to their education. The learned Amicus Curiae submitted a note, along with which a brief summary of the responses of the State Governments/Union Territories has also been filed.

3. From the information provided by the State Governments in response to the Order dated 7.6.2021, the learned Amicus Curiae submitted that it is not clear as to whether the benefits that were promised by the State Governments/U

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