Juvenile Homes

Understaffed and overcrowded, juvenile homes are hell holes rather than reform centres

There is a lot of discrepancy between the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, on paper and in practice.

Delhi HC pulls up government over security in juvenile homes

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday slammed the Delhi government for suggesting the shifting of juvenile homes to the Tihar Jail campus for security, a day after 44 minors escaped from a juvenile justice home.

SC sets up committee of judges to monitor juvenile homes

OfficiaL sources said Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam has written a letter to all the chief justices of the High Courts to nominate a judge in the panel which will be headed by apex court judge Justice Madan B Lokur.

Juvenile crime up by 34% in Mumbai, cops point finger at remand homes

The National Crime Records Bureau has said that juvenile crime went up by 34% in 2012, with around two cases of juvenile crime being reported every day, and police say juvenile remand homes may be to blame