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Bangalore has hundreds of malnourished kids

Sunitha Rao R,TNN | Aug 27, 2013, 06.03 AM IST BANGALORE: India's IT capital has a dark side – it has 2,122 malnourished children, most of them in slums. The BBMP discovered this in three of its zones where it conducted health camps. Of the underweight children, 1,246, or 59%, ..... Read More

Busting misconceptions on juvenile justice

Updated: August 27, 2013 10:11 IST Popular narrative on juvenile crime and justice, especially in the aftermath of the Delhi and Mumbai gang-rape incidents, needs some serious fact-checking The horrific Delhi gang rape and the claim raised by two persons accused in the Mumbai gangrape case that they are minors have ..... Read More

Consensual sex with minor not a crime, Delhi court says

TNN | Aug 26, 2013, 12.56AM IST NEW DELHI: A city court has observed that consensual sex with a girl aged below 18 years does not constitute an offence under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The court said the provisions of POCSO Act suggest that where a ..... Read More

Child rights body handicapped

Aditya Dev, TNN | Aug 11, 2013, 07.21AM IST GURGAON: The Haryana State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (HSCPCR) is yet to get a stipulated number of members for proper functioning of the commission, even though the commission was constituted eight months ago in January. The Haryana government constituted a ..... Read More

Special Victims: Law, Order and India’s Children

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 – 13:06 "There can be no keener revelation of a society`s soul than the way in which it treats its children", said Nelson Mandela. If that`s true, India needs to do some urgent soul searching. Nowhere is our attitude to children better reflected than in the ..... Read More