A bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice P S Teji also concurred with the words of Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, crusader for child rights, "it is a shame that India has the highest number of child labourers in the world."
"To our consternation and dismay if the capital of the country, which is endowed with better infrastructure and other backups fails to take effective steps in its drive to rescue the children and doesn't succeed in properly rehabilitating them in terms of the directives given by the Supreme Court and the guidelines issued by the Standard Operating Procedure(SOP) then we fail to fathom what would be the providence or fate of other states/districts of India where good infrastructural facilities and manpower are scant and not adequate," it said.
Initially, one Seema Roy moved court seeking direction to the authorities concerned including Delhi police to produce her 12-year-old minor son and to hand over his custody to her.
During hearing, the court learnt about various other missing children and child labour cases.
The concerned departments have come into action only after filing of the present plea and pursuant to certain directions given by this court, the judge noted.
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