INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday purchased a meeting of Union secretaries of finance, house and child and ladies development
departments with the principal secretaries of all states after discovering application of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act
to be miserable as over 4.7 lakh cases are pending across 801 districts in the country.A bench of Justices S R Bhat and Dipankar Datta
stated with one security officer for every single district, each of these officers would be saddled with more than 600 cases, which is
difficult for a specific to manage
This is especially so when the security officers are mandated to release an extreme responsibility, consisting of performing regular
on-the-sport surveys and assessments to help the courts, they being the interphase in between the victim, cops and the judicial procedure
In these scenarios, it would be necessary that the Union government takes an intensive take a look at all aspects of the application of the
DV Act in letter and spirit and offer relief and security to the victims of domestic violence, the bench stated
It stated the conferences of the secretaries from the Union and state governments would also be participated in by chairperson of National
Commission for Women and a candidate of the National Legal Services Authority chairman.Accepting tips from the Union federal government
through extra solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati, the bench purchased the meeting of these high officials to fulfill within 3 weeks to plug
the implementational loopholes and decide whether extra security officers and one-stop centres for victims of domestic violence might be
opened.Bhati recommended that the states must come out with information on variety of cases designated to each defense officer; number of
courts needed to be taken care of by each PO; present strength of POs in each district and whether their numbers requires boost; assess
required strength of POs; and collect information from the states on their experience on implementation of the DV Act, 2005
The bench directed the ministry of ladies and child development to file a status report on the implementation of the Mission Shakti, the
Integrated Women Empowerment Programme
The court said the ministry will endeavour to provide particular details on the number of one-stop centres are proposed in each district;
the number of are functional at present; staffing pattern of such centres and actual personnel requirement depending upon the workload;
details of a common portal and dashboard.
