Chief Justice NV Ramana Invokes Jawaharlal Nehru, Calls For Legal Aid For Children
New Delhi:
Youngsters who’re dragged into the felony justice system should be helped, Chief Justice NV Ramana mentioned at the moment at an occasion.
Invoking Pandit Jawaharlal Nehu, the primary Prime Minister of India, on his delivery anniversary, the Chief Justice mentioned: “At this time the delivery anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru is being celebrated all around the nation. On Youngsters’s Day, it’s befitting that we’re launching schemes which might be primarily concentrating on the authorized support for kids.”
“We should think about sustaining workers who’s skilled in child-friendly authorized support and different specialised expertise comparable to psychosocial help. Youngsters who’re dragged into the felony justice system should be helped,” he underlined.
He made these remarks at on the Valedictory Ceremony of ‘Pan-India Authorized Consciousness & Outreach Marketing campaign’ that was attended by different senior judges of the Supreme Court docket and Smriti Irani, Girls and Little one Welfare Minister.
Earlier, Union Minister Smriti Irani, throughout her speech, had spoken about schemes “which recognise how tough it’s for a kid who undergoes trauma, to interact and obtain justice”.
She mentioned that numerous initiatives are being taken to supply authorized support and counselling to youngsters who’re victims of abuse. “Methodologies and talent units have been developed that illustrated abuse narratives from a baby with out additional traumatising the kid,” she underlined.
She additionally addressed the judges and mentioned, “I want a simply future for ladies and youngsters and that simply future could be enabled by your assist.”
Chief Justice Ramana additionally quoted Jawaharlal Nehru whereas speaking about the necessity to assist the poor.
“Sadly Unbiased India inherited a deeply fragmented society from its colonial previous. Contemplating the identical Pandit Nehru as soon as mentioned, ‘There may very well be no actual freedom with out financial freedom, and that to name a ravenous man free is however to mock him’ . The stark divide between haves and have-nots remains to be a actuality.”
“Regardless of being a part of a welfare state advantages usually are not trickling right down to the supposed beneficiaries. Individuals’s aspirations about main a dignified life are sometimes met with challenges. Certainly one of them, primarily being poverty.That is the place initiatives like authorized support assume nice significance,” he added.