Court Issued Mandamus in Response to  Juvenile Reform Home Writ

  January 6, 2025 By: INSEC

A writ was filed in the Tulsipur High Court on 12 June 2024 regarding the fundamental rights of children and juvenile justice of children in juvenile rehabilitation homes. The High Court of Tulsipur Butwal issued a mandamus order in the name of the respondents. The joint bench of judges Jagat Bahadur Thapa and Sagar Bista of the High Court of Tulsipur Butwal issued this order on 5 January 2025.

Stating that the Child Reform Home in Bhairahawa is not operating according to the required standards and is more like a prison than a reform home, the PIL Legal Practitioners Group, including Senior Advocate Sunil Shrestha, Senior Advocate Shiv Prasad Gaudel, Advocate Basanta Gautam, INSEC’s Lumbini Province Coordinator Bhola Mahat, Advocate Lok Bahadur Shah, Advocate Bikash Acharya, Advocate Bishwajit Tiwari, Advocate Bal Bahadur Chand, Advocate Kewal Singh Tharu, Advocate Suresh Kumar Gautam, Advocate Indira Acharya, and other legal professionals, filed a writ against the Child Reform Home in Rupandehi Bhairahawa, the Ministry of Women, Children, and Senior Citizens (Singhadarbar, Kathmandu), Lumbini Province Government, Lumbini Province Police Office Dang, Siddharth Municipality Rupandehi, Education Development and Coordination Unit Rupandehi, District Health Office Rupandehi, District Administration Office Rupandehi, District Police Office Rupandehi, District Police Office Palpa, District Police Office Arghakhanchi, District Police Office Kapilvastu, and District Police Office Nawalparasi (Bardghat Susta West) on June 12, 2024.

The court issued a mandamus in the opponents’ names during the hearing of the writ filed on June 12 regarding the protection of child rights and juvenile justice for the children held in the Child Reform Home at the Tulsipur Butwal Bench of the High Court.


Rima BC