SC seeks Response from Centre, States on Student Safety

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Supreme CourtNew Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and all State governments after hearing a plea seeking framing of “non- negotiable” child safety conditions and implementation of guidelines to protect school children from sexual abuse and murder.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notices and sought responses within three weeks from the Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry and all state governments and union territories on the plea filed by two women lawyers, Abha R Sharma and Sangeeta Bharti in this connection.

The apex court tagged the plea of the lawyers along with the petition filed by the father of seven-year-old Pradyuman, who was killed allegedly by a bus conductor at Gurgaon’s Ryan International School.

The women lawyers also suggested some guidelines, including that there should be “no liquor vendors, hawkers, stalls selling tobacco and other such tobacco based product that is pan-masala, cigarettes, gutkas” within one kilometre radius of a school.

The plea also suggested that a female attendant has to be employed outside the washrooms, toilet and changing rooms in all schools for pre-nursery to primary sections.

The Supreme Court will also hear on Monday the plea of a man, whose 9-year-old son died last month allegedly under mysterious circumstances in a private run school in Ghaziabad, seeking a CBI probe in the case.

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