"Five mentally challenged children lodged at a Children’s Home have died of malnutrition and disease. One child is alleged to have been raped. The Court has had to act suo motu because the mentally challenged are unable to to secure the protection of their human rights or access to justice. Development without freedom is meaningless. Much like a desolate sky bereft of the twitter of the birds or the trees of an urban environment where the roots lie buried in layers of concrete. Like the barren earth parched by drought - its deep crevices bearing testimony to muted tales of untold suffering. A society which bears her children to die of starvation has unanswered questions which cannot be answered. Neither constitutional freedom nor growth in a global society can be achieved when the young die without a morsel of food and clean water. We write great anguish over the deprivations faced by our young and the disabled but in the determined hope that judicial review can activate a democratic deficit of governance." Justice Smt. R.P. Sondur Baldota, Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud in Article in Mumbai Mirror v. Govt of Maharastra.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 01:08:28 +0000
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