The Ministry of Women and Child Development has recently passed the proposal for “critical care and support for accessing justice to rape or gangrape survivors and minor girls who get pregnant” with an outlay of Rs 74.10 crore. The scheme will provide shelter, food and legal aid for pregnant minor victims of sexual assault who have no family support
A bench of Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice S. Ravindra Bhat directed the State governments to gather information from social welfare departments and other authorities and provide the same to the Amicus Curiae within 2 weeks.
The Supreme Court bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta had taken suo motu cognizance on April 3, 2020 and had passed a slew of directions to the States to Registrar General of every High Court.