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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 (13:02:29) |
| Tags : Women, Juvenile, Justice |
Women & Child Development Minister visits juvenile home at Kingsway camp
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| New Delhi: Delhi Women & Child Development Minister Prof. Kiran Walia today exhorted the experts in the field of Juvenile to recommend/suggest some concrete ways and improvements in the Juvenile Justice Act for ameliorating the conditions of the children kept in Observation Home for Boys (OHB).
At present the provisions of the Act are very much sensitive and complex and there is a need to make them more meaningful. Prof. Walia was speaking while conducting a visit of the OHB at Kingsway Camp from where 17 juveniles escaped on 16th May, 2010. She was accompanied with the senior officials of the Department of Women & Child Development including Director (WCD) Shri Rajeev Kale.
Out of 17 juveniles escaped from the OHB, 06 children today reported back to the Home. Minister and officers took a round of the Home and enquired about the happening. Prof. Walia said that she found there is no segregation in the lodging in the OHB on the basis of offences committed by the Juvenile. She said that there should be a provision for segregation of the children in OHB. She further said that the Act is a beneficial legislation. The assumption of innocence and the best interest of the child are fundamental to the application and implementation of the Act.
The juveniles involved in the small offence and even charged with serious offence are lodged in the Observation Homes by the Juvenile Justice Boards. She said that this OHB has been set up under the provision of the Juvenile Justice Act and houses children in conflict with law in the age group of 16-18 years. Under the provision of JJ Act the age at the time of commissioning 06 offences is considered for inquiry of the offence under the Act.
Prof. Walia informed that escape of 17 juvenile from the OHB on 16th May, 2010 was again led by a juvenile who has been involved in a number of serious offences. The other juveniles are generally in fear of such juveniles involved in a number of serious offences. This enables such juveniles to escape in a group as it makes difficult for the security to control them. It is for this reason that many of them return voluntarily the next day.
Prof. Walia said that in the recent past the department has made many efforts by way of improvement in facilities such as infrastructure, nutrition, recreation, education in order to provide juveniles an atmosphere conductive to their mainstreaming. This is a long drawn process and to further the same the department is now in the final process of recruiting counselors selected especially to work with juveniles. |
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