Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 1124 · Decided 14 December 2016
Bachpan Bachao Andolan v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 1124 · [2016] 12 S.C.R. 154
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 906/2014
- Decided
- 14 December 2016
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32; Juvenile Justice Act Section 33, 2(d)(vi)
Headnote
Public Interest Litigation - Substance abuse - lndi_a home to largest child population ilr the world - Alarming increase in use of drugs and alcohol among children in India - Writ petition seeking mandamus to Union of India to formulate and implement a children on the issue of drugs, alcohol and substance abuse amongst children - Held: Protecting children from wide-spread prevalence of substance abuse is one of the biggest policy challenges facing India - India being a signatory to United Nations Conventions, having bearing on the issue, has
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