Supreme Court of India
Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee v. Union of India.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the petitioner should have access to information and should be permitted to visit jails, children’s homes, remand homes, observation homes, borstal schools and all institutions connected with housing of delinquent or destitute children.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
The petitioner had filed a Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 1951 of 1985 in the Supreme Court praying that the respondents-States be directed: (a) to release all children detained in the jails in the respondent-States ; (b) to furnish ’complete information respecting all children detained in the States and the circumstances and the legal facts of such detention and the number of available juvenile courts and children homes; (c) to appoint district judges of the districts to visit jails, sub-jails and lock-ups to identify and release children in such illegal detention; (d) to requisition…
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