Juvenile Justice Act: News

02 Aug 2024

Indian Penal Code

Indore siblings lodge police complaint against parents for scolding them

Two siblings from Indore took legal action against their parents for reprimanding them over excessive screen time.

05 Jul 2024

Bombay High Court

Porsche crash: Pune teen submits essay on road safety 

The 17-year-old boy involved in the Pune Porsche crash, which claimed the lives of two tech professionals, has submitted a 300-word essay on road safety to the Juvenile Justice Board as part of his bail conditions, an official reported on Friday.

25 Jun 2024

Bombay High Court

Porsche crash: Bombay HC orders minor's release from observation home

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of a 17-year-old boy, who was accused in a fatal Porsche accident that resulted in the death of two software engineers in Pune.

Pune Porsche crash: Teen's friends confirm he was drink driving 

Two friends of the 17-year-old teen who was allegedly driving a Porsche when it hit two people, killing them, claimed the boy was drunk at the time of the accident.

30 May 2024

Porsche

Pune Porsche crash: Hospital dean's big claim against minister, MLA 

The dean of Sassoon General Hospital in Pune, Vinayak Kale, has alleged that one of the doctors accused of manipulating the blood samples of the 17-year-old boy behind the Porsche accident was appointed despite being accused in two cases.

Pune Porsche crash: Doctor who 'changed' teen's blood sample sacked  

The chief medical officer of Sassoon General Hospital in Pune, Dr. Shrihari Halnor, has been fired for allegedly manipulating blood samples of the 17-year-old boy involved in the Porsche car accident.

Pune Porsche crash: Conduct of juvenile board members under probe

The Maharashtra government has launched an investigation into the conduct of the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) members who granted immediate bail to the 17-year-old boy involved in a fatal Porsche crash.

28 May 2024

Porsche

Porsche crash: Teen's grandfather, father in custody till May 31

The Pune district court on Tuesday extended the police custody of the father and the grandfather of the teenager accused in the Porsche accident case, till May 31.

28 May 2024

Porsche

₹3L paid to change blood samples of Porsche teen: Report

The peon arrested in the Pune Porsche crash case—along with two doctors—allegedly handed over a ₹3 lakh bribe to them to manipulate the blood test report of the 17-year-old accused.

27 May 2024

Porsche

Porsche accident: Forgery, criminal conspiracy charges added against teen's father 

The father of a 17-year-old Pune teenager who drove a Porsche into a bike in a drunk state, killing two people last week is now facing additional charges.

24 May 2024

Pune Police

Parents tried to frame family driver for Porsche accident: Police

The parents of a 17-year-old boy, who is accused of running over two people with a Porsche in a drunk state, allegedly tried to frame their driver for the accident.

24 May 2024

Porsche

Pune accident: Porsche's GPS, cameras examined; teen's grandfather, friend questioned 

The Pune Police questioned the grandfather and a friend of the teenager who drove a Porsche into a bike in a drunk state, killing two people last week.

22 May 2024

Porsche

Pune Porsche accident: Drink driving charges added against teen 

A juvenile court ruled on Wednesday that the 17-year-old boy from Pune who hit two techies with his Porsche and killed them will face charges of drink driving.

Multiple cars, new SIM: Teen's father's plan to evade arrest

The father of the Pune teenager who drove a Porsche into a bike—killing two people—had made an intricate escape plan involving multiple cars and a new SIM card to mislead the police.

Porsche accident: Teen spent ₹48,000 at first pub, says police

The Pune teenager who drove a Porsche into a bike, killing two people, spent ₹48,000 in a span of 90 minutes at one of the two pubs he visited before the accident, Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar has said.

21 May 2024

Maharashtra

Pune Porsche accident: Bar where teen drank with friends sealed

Officials on Tuesday sealed a Pune bar that served alcohol to a 17-year-old boy and his friends in the early hours of Sunday.

21 May 2024

Sanjay Raut

Teen served pizza at police station after Porsche crash: Opposition 

Amid outrage over bail to the 17-year-old boy—driving the Porsche that killed two engineers in Pune on Sunday—the opposition has alleged that the teenager was fed pizza, burger, and biryani at the police station after being detained.

Porsche accident: Bar's owner, manager arrested for serving minor liquor

The owner and the manager of a bar in Pune were taken into custody on Tuesday for allegedly serving alcohol to a minor who later caused an accident and killed two people.

Pune Porsche accident: Teen's father arrested from Aurangabad

The father of the 17-year-old boy allegedly driving the Porsche that collided with a bike in Pune on Sunday—killing a man and a woman—was arrested on Tuesday.

20 May 2024

Porsche

Pune Porsche accident: Teen's father charged by police

The father of the 17-year-old boy allegedly driving the Porsche that collided with a bike in Pune on Saturday—killing a man and a woman—has been booked by the police.

03 May 2024

Crime Branch

Delhi Police chief gets bomb threat email, minor picked up

A teenager was picked up by the Delhi Police for allegedly sending a threatening email to the Delhi Police headquarters on Thursday.

28 Aug 2023

Uttar Pradesh

UP Muslim schoolboy slap case: Police case against Mohammed Zubair

Fact-checker and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair is facing a First Information Report (FIR) for revealing the identity of the minor Muslim boy who was allegedly slapped by his classmates on the orders of their school teacher in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.

08 Aug 2022

India

3-year-old in coma after father beats her for playing longer

According to Hyderabad police, a three-year-old girl is currently in a coma at a local hospital after being severely beaten by her father for playing too long.

17 Jul 2022

Mumbai

Mumbai: Minor detained for putting homemade bomb in parcel

According to police, a boy was apprehended in Mumbai on Saturday for reportedly building a low-intensity homemade bomb and packaging it in a courier container in order to claim insurance money.

09 Jun 2022

Telangana

Hyderabad: Police want to try minor gang-rape accused as adults

The Hyderabad Police is planning to appeal in the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) to allow the accused in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape case to be tried as adults.

30 Aug 2021

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu woman arrested for torturing her 2-year-old son

The Tamil Nadu Police has arrested a 23-year-old woman for allegedly torturing her 2-year-old child, after several shocking videos of the abuse went viral on social media.

Share information on orphaned children: NCPCR to states

The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) wrote to states and union territories on Monday, urging them to inform child protection authorities about children who have lost both parents due to COVID-19.

09 Aug 2020

Uttar Pradesh

Agra man arrested after viral video shows him beating son

A man in Uttar Pradesh's Agra has been arrested for brutally thrashing his son after tying him upside down.

04 Feb 2020

Karnataka

For fourth-time, Karnataka police grills students over 'seditious' anti-CAA play

Students of Shaheen Urdu School in Bidar, Karnataka, are spending a lot of time with police officers, thanks to a play on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which was performed on January 21.

01 Sep 2019

Nitin Gadkari

New #MotorVehicleAct: Rs. 1,000 for jumping red light, and more

Heftier penalties and fines for traffic rule violations come into force today across the country as 63 clauses of the newly-amended Motor Vehicle Act will be implemented from Sunday.

01 Aug 2019

Lok Sabha

#NewsBytesExplainer: How will Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill affect you

With an eye on making Indian roads safer, Rajya Sabha passed Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019, on Wednesday.

03 Mar 2019

Delhi High Court

Delhi-HC asks couple to plant 100 trees over child labor

The Delhi High Court has agreed to quash an FIR against a couple, who had employed a minor for household work, and directed them to plant 100 trees and pay Rs. 1.5 lakh to the victim.

29 Dec 2018

Bihar

Delhi: Girls abused inside shelter-home, chilli-powder put in private parts

On Thursday night, during a surprise visit to a shelter home run by an NGO, in Dwarka, the Delhi Commission of Women found that girls were ruthlessly abused by staff.

05 Dec 2018

Odisha

Four shelter homes shut in Odisha, had no registration

Four shelter homes in Odisha have been shut down after an inquiry found that they were running without registration.

14 Oct 2018

Gujarat

Gujarat: Two minors held for raping teen in orphanage

Two minors have been sent to an observation home for allegedly raping a teen in an orphanage in Gujarat's Kutch district, IE reports.

14 Aug 2018

India

Australia resumes adoptions from India after 8yrs of suspension: WCD

Australia has resumed adoption of children from India after it was suspended eight years ago over charges of trafficking by some recognized Indian placement agencies, a WCD Ministry official said today.

05 Aug 2018

India

1,991 kids available for adoption in India for 20,000 prospective-parents

The number of children available for adoption in the country is 1,991, including 1,322 girls, for about 20,000 prospective parents, an RTI revealed.

03 Aug 2018

Lok Sabha

203 registered cases of children running away from shelters

As many as 203 complaints of children who ran away from observation and special homes have been registered by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) since 2015, MoS WCD Virendra Kumar informed Lok Sabha today.

02 Aug 2018

Bihar

Muzaffarpur shelter-home: SC bars media from publishing minors' visuals

The SC has taken suo motu cognizance of the Muzaffapur shelter home sex abuse case. Among its first directions were instructions to media not to publish visuals of the minor victims, even in blurred or morphed form.

29 Jul 2018

Bihar

Bihar shelter-home: Girls cut hands with glass to escape rape

The Muzaffarpur shelter home sex abuse racket gets more horrifying by the day. The toll of raped girls has now increased to 34.

28 Jul 2018

Bihar

Pune: 36 sexually assaulted kids rescued from Madrasa, Maulana arrested

The police rescued 36 children from a madrasa in Pune's Katraj Kondhwa area after reports of sexual abuse surfaced. A maulana named Rahim has been arrested.

21 Jul 2018

Maneka Gandhi

Issue instructions to conduct MoCs' inspection: WCD Ministry to states

The Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry has said that it has asked all states and Union Territories to issue instructions for conducting an inspection of all homes run by the Missionaries of Charity (MoC).

19 Jul 2018

Mumbai

Mumbai: To 'punish' Class-1 student, teacher removes his pants, arrested

A school teacher was arrested on Wednesday in Navi Mumbai and later released on bail, for stripping a Class 1 student in front of his classmates to 'punish' him.

17 Jul 2018

India

Illegal adoption row: Government orders inspection of childcare homes

After cases of alleged illegal adoptions carried out by childcare homes run by Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity (MoC) surfaced recently, the Indian Government has ordered all the states to get MoC homes inspected immediately.

11 Jul 2018

Delhi Police

Delhi: 16 kindergarten-girls locked inside school-basement for not paying fees

A case was registered against Rabea Girls' Public School, Delhi, for allegedly locking up 16 girls, aged 4-5 years, in a basement over non-payment of fees by their parents.

26 Jun 2018

Thane

Thane: Police book school headmistress for slapping student for yawning

The Thane Rural Police has registered offenses against the headmistress of a school for allegedly slapping a Class 6 student for yawning during the morning assembly prayer, an official said.

23 Jun 2018

India

Magazine featuring breastfeeding woman not vulgar, Kerala HC rules

Like beauty, obscenity also lies in the beholder's eyes, said Kerala High Court while refusing to term the picture of a woman breastfeeding her baby on a magazine cover as 'vulgar'.

11 Jun 2018

Mumbai

'My past drove me to more crimes': Shakti Mills rapist

Rape often alters lives of those involved, including the perpetrators: a fact that doesn't come to the fore that often.

03 Jun 2018

Kerala

Ashamed of having fourth-child, Kerala couple abandons newborn at church

A two-day-old baby was abandoned on the steps of a Kochi church as the parents feared society would shame them for having a fourth child, Kerala police revealed on Saturday.

22 May 2018

Murder

Ryan International murder: 16-year-old accused to be tried as adult

Dismissing a petition by a 16-year-old, a Gurugram court has ruled that he will be tried as an adult for murdering seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur last September.

07 Apr 2018

Delhi

Delhi: Youth killed 7-year-old for resisting sodomy, arrested

A 21-year-old was recently arrested for abducting and sodomizing his seven-year-old neighbor in Delhi's Okhla Industrial area.

24 Mar 2018

Assam

Assam: Class 5 girl gang-raped, later set on fire

On Friday, in a hideous incident, a Class 5 student in Assam's Nagaon district was set on fire after allegedly being gang-raped. The girl, who suffered 90% burn injuries, passed away in a hospital at night.

12 Mar 2018

POCSO

NCPCR working on better security measures for child TV artistes

The infamous Papon kissing controversy raised several questions over the security of the child TV artistes.

10 Mar 2018

Delhi

Delhi: E-rickshaw driver arrested for cook's murder

Shoulders collided, argument ensued and then there was a murder - that's how the stabbing of a 35-year-old cook that happened on March 4 in Delhi's Alaknanda region can be described.

23 Feb 2018

Faridabad

Faridabad: Boy detained for forcibly pouring Sindur on classmate's head

A teenage boy was detained and sent to a child observation home in Faridabad after a female classmate accused him of putting "Sindur" on her head.

Ryan murder: Juvenile to be tried as adult, but why?

The 16-year-old Class 11 student accused of the murder of seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur will be tried as an adult, the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) has ruled.

Pradyuman murder: CBI seeks juvenile's remand to recreate crime scene

After the arrest of a Class XI student for the murder of seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur, the CBI sought his remand so it could reconstruct the crime scene.

26 Oct 2017

India

One juvenile arrested for rape every 4 hours in India

It's not just adult men who rape or molest.

17 Sep 2017

Delhi

Do you feel your children are safe in schools?

When a seven-year-old was found with his throat slit at a prominent Gurugram school, people were shocked.

05 Jul 2017

Delhi

DU: Third cut-off list to be released on 7th July

Many Delhi University colleges will release their third cut-off list on Friday, a drop of up to 2% in most courses is expected.

08 May 2017

India

The reality of juvenile crimes in India

The number of juvenile delinquents has risen by leaps and bounds in the last few years. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 23,25,575 cases were registered against juveniles under IPC crimes in 2011.

07 May 2017

India

SC: Every child must have welfare benefits

The Supreme Court broadened the ambit of the Juvenile Justice Act stating that every child in need must get welfare benefits.

15 Feb 2017

Manohar Parrikar

Bengaluru: Rumours on demonetization of Rs 10 coins create panic

Rumours about demonetization of Rs 10 coins spread in Bengaluru, creating chaos as more and more citizens found it difficult to use their coins for payment.

05 Jan 2017

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

Delhi in today's news

An announcement made by the EC declared that Noida and Ghaziabad are set to go to polls on 11th February.