September 15, 2017 5:55 PM

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Child Safety: Supreme Court seeks responses from Centre and all state governments

The Supreme Court today 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.<br/><br/>A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notices and sought the responses within three weeks from the Union Human Resources Ministry and all state governments and union territories on the plea filed by two women lawyers.<br/><br/>The top 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.<br/><br/>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 school in Ghaziabad,seeking a CBI probe in the case.<br/><br/>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 panmasala, cigarettes, gutkas" within a kilometre radius of the schools.

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