High Court issues guidelines for CWCs on child surrender by parents
The Hindu
HC found vacuum in law on procedure to be followed by CWCs as govt. is yet to frame rules under Juvenile Justice Act
Filling a vacuum in the law on protection of children, the High Court Karnataka on Thursday issued guidelines on how the Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) will have to proceed to hold inquiry and counselling when parents or guardians want to surrender children on being unable to look after them for physical, emotional, and social factors beyond their control, as per the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. The court issued the guidelines while hearing a PIL petition related to an “unfortunate” incident of abandoning of a two-week-old child in June this year by parents, a couple in their early twenties who were in a live-in relationship in Mysuru. They had left the child at a house of one of their friends, who subsequently intimated the incident to the police.
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