Peshawar - Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday asked the provincial government to submit a report about the implementation of Juvenile Justice System Act (JJSA), 2018.
The verdict, issued by a two-member bench comprising Justice Lal Jan Khattak and Justice Ijaz Anwar, in a writ petition filed by a social worker Imran Takkar.
The petitioner had made chief secretary of KP, as well as the secretaries of Social Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs and Human Rights, and Home and Tribal Affair departments respondents in the case.
The petitioner’s counsel Sharafat Ali Chaudhry told the court that Juvenile Justice System Act-2018 could not be implemented in the letter and spirit even three years of its enactment.
He said the juvenile arrestees were often being kept in police stations and jails though they could not be kept in such places as per the law. The court asked the authorities concerned to submit a report on the matter in the next hearing.