STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Deliberations continued for the second day on working of Juvenile Justice System in the State of J and K of the workshop organised by the High Court committee on Juvenile Justice and J&K State Judicial Academy in collaboration with UNICEF.
Different provisions of the J and K Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2013 and Rules, 2014 were discussed. The participants, Chief Judicial Magistrates, senior judicial officers and police officers present on the occasion shared their rich experiences and difficulties during the conference in dealing with the children in conflict with law.
The discussions were held regarding the role of Principal Magistrates of Juvenile Justice Boards in the process of rehabilitation and social re-integration of children. The workshop discussed the challenges and the way forward on four different aspects i.e. social investigation reports and individual care plans, rehabilitation of children in conflict with law in homes, role of social welfare and overall coordination and role of police, probation officers, restoration and after care.
Various suggestions were put forward by the participants for the effective implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act and the rules which were taken note by Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar, Chairman, Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey, Member, Committee on Juvenile Justice and Jehangir Iqbal Ganie, Learned Advocate General, J and K State who were present on the session.
Representatives of break out groups, Parvez Iqbal, Additional Mobile Magistrate (Traffic) Jammu, Ritesh Dubey, CJM, Udhampur, Prem Sagar, Munsiff, Ukhral and Kamlesh Pandita, CJM Reasi and Mubashir Latifi, SSP Crime made presentations on challenges and way forward in the concluding sessions.
Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey expressed hope that the deliberations in the workshop will benefit the judicial officers and sharpen their judicial skills.
Justice Attar and Justice Magrey expressed gratitude to the resource persons from UNICEF for their rich and varied experience on juvenile justice system.
Justice Attar was of the view that the term ‘Juvenile in Conflict with law’ in the Act has to be substituted by more children friendly expression as the child is never in conflict with law due to his fragility and innocence.
Learned Advocate General, Ganie assured the judges and the participants that he will make a sincere endeavour to remove the hardships in the way of implementation of Juvenile Justice Act and Rules.
The workshop concluded with vote of thanks by Director, J&K State Judicial Academy, Abdul Rashid Malik.
