On June 6, there were reports that 35 children in a Chennai children’s institution were infected with Coronavirus and that while those who infected were hospitalized, the remaining were shifted to an adjacent building.
On June 15, 57 girls residing in a state-run institution at Kanpur tested positive for COVID-19. A report by India Today suggests that that the shelter home, built for 100 girls, housed 171 of them, making physical distancing very difficult.
These incidents occurred despite the Supreme Court’s order on April 3, by which it had taken suo motu cognizance of the situation of children. The Court had directed the state governments to take certain preventive measures in institutions housing children, and more fundamentally, to ensure that the system under the Juvenile Justice Act (JJ Act) was functional.
Read the entire article below by Enakshi Ganguly, human rights activist and Honorary Professor, National Law University, Odisha and Mahesh Menon, Faculty, Daksha Fellowship
https://www.barandbench.com/columns/supreme-court-order-new-standards-for-human-rights-monitoring-and-accountability?fbclid=IwAR3Fde7K9Vzvh-iQIwP58Ch4JsAROh7I039GgBFm38b8p6xAERB4PHjV38c
