Don’t link drive against begging to order on survey of street children: HC

The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday made it clear that the drive taken up by government authorities in Bengaluru under the Karnataka Prohibition of Beggary (KPB) Act, 1975, is not linked to its orders on PIL petitions, through which the court had ordered for conduct of survey of children selling articles at traffic junctions and others locations on streets. Those in charge of the drive taken up under the KPB Act should not link it with the process of collection of data of street children taken up by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA) in coordination with the city police, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, NGOs, and others, the court said.