Rights of children completely non-negotiable: HC

Rights of children are completely non-negotiable even if they are implicated in a heinous crime, Delhi High Court has said while expressing pain over the way a sessions court dealt with a murder case in which a juvenile was “incarcerated” for over nine years.

The high court suggested that there was a need to train trial court judges regarding the law relating to juveniles, saying the sessions court had dealt with the matter while being “completely oblivious” of the valuable rights of a minor under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act.