JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIA TOWARDS SECURING THE RIGHTS OF CHILD

Abstract

Children are the main strength and resource for the future generation of any country. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Child, 1989 defines a ‘child’ as every human being who is below the age of eighteen years. However the Convention provides that the age for attaining majority can be fixed at a lower age by the particular domestic law which applies to the child. Every child, like any adult, must be entitled to fundamental rights without distinction or discrimination on any basis. The rights and privileges afforded to children under the plethora of laws in place would be useless if they were not followed. The Indian judiciary plays a critical role in the protection of children and has issued numerous landmark decisions in this region. This paper focuses on the development that has been made with respect to prohibiting harassments and all sorts of ill-treatment shown to children from a very young age. Moreover there are still certain elements missing when trying to combat all illegal activities happening to children when tried to sort out with the prevailing statues. The problem arises with the system that has to control things efficiently, but in the Indian scenario things go out of control just because nobody tends to utilize these plethora of rules and laws accurately prior to the happening of unfortunate events.