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Rights Of Children Completely Non-Negotiable: Delhi High Court

Rights Of Children Completely Non-Negotiable: Delhi High Court

by The Daily Eye Team October 17 2016, 2:49 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

Rights of children are completely non-negotiable even if they are implicated in a heinous crime, Delhi High Court has said while expressing pain over the way a sessions court dealt with a murder case in which a juvenile was “incarcerated” for over nine years.

The high court suggested that there was a need to train trial court judges regarding the law relating to juveniles, saying the sessions court had dealt with the matter while being “completely oblivious” of the valuable rights of a minor under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act.

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