Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 23: A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court comprising Chief Justice N Kotiswar Singh and Justice Atul Shreedharan has directed authorities to place on record the steps taken for constitution of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
When the PIL came-up for hearing, DB observed, “Section 44 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 mandates monitoring of effective implementation of the provisions of the Act by the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights”.
As no such Commission has been constituted in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir as well as in UT of Ladakh, the DB said, “considering the statutory role assigned to the Commission for effective implementation of the Act, non-constitution would be a serious lapse on the part of the authorities concerned”.
“Before we issue specific directions in this regard, we require authorities to place on record the steps taken for constitution of this Commission”, the DB said.
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