SC to hear on Sep 15 PIL over safety of school children
12 Sept 2017 11:04 PM IST
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea of two women lawyers seeking framing of "non- negotiable" child safety conditions and implementation of existing guidelines to protect school-going children from offences like sexual abuse and murder across the country.
The plea which also sought cancellation of licences and forfeiture of state grants of erring schools will be heard by the court along with the petition filed yesterday by the father of seven-year-old Pradyuman, who was killed allegedly by a bus conductor at Gurgaon's Ryan International School.
He had sought a CBI probe into the killing of his son and framing of guidelines to ensure safety of children.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar on Tuesday considered the PIL, filed by lawyers Abha R Sharma and Sangeeta Bharti, and said that it has already issued notice on the similar plea of the father of the child. "We will tag it (writ petition) with the earlier one," the bench said and fixed the PIL for hearing on September 15.
The fresh PIL, filed through lawyer Sujeeta Srivastava, raised the issue of children "being exploited and subjected to child abuse repeatedly within the boundaries of the schools" and demanded that central and state governments notify a set of "non-negotiable" child safety conditions for schools.
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