Current Affairs 23-DEC-2023 (The Hindu)

Judicial & Police Custody

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Judicial & Police Custody

Basics of Terms

• Criminal Justice system - Code of Criminal Procedure or Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) – 1973.
• Chapter 5 of the CrPC deals with the arrest.
• Article 22 - Protection of a person during arrest or detention.
• Sec 57 of CrPC - No Detention of a person in custody for more than 24 hours without producing before a magistrate.

Difference between Police & Judicial custody

• Police custody - person is confined at a lockup or remains in the custody of the Police officer.
• When a person is arrested by police.
• Interrogate the suspect in the police station.
• Detention – Maximum of 24 hours.
• Magistrate - remand the person for a period of maximum 15 days.
• After lapse of 15 days - person may be further remanded to judicial custody.
• Judicial custody - person is detained under the purview of Judicial magistrate.
• Accused is lodged in central or state prison.
• Judicial custody - extend up to 60 or 90 days.

• Police Custody - Investigating authority can interrogate a person.
• Judicial custody - There will be no interrogation unless court permits.
• In police custody - Person has various rights like Right to legal counsel, right to be informed of the grounds, etc.
• Responsibility of the police to ensure all these rights.
• In the case of judicial custody – the accused will be in jail.
• Prison Manual will govern the routine conduct of the person.
• Judicial custody, the person can apply for bail as per chapter 33 of the crpc.
• No Undertrial person can be in judicial custody beyond half of the time period of his/her prescribed maximum punishment.

UPSC PYQ 2021 – Prelims

Consider the following statements:

1. Judicial custody means an accused is in the custody of the concerned magistrate and such accused is locked up in the police station, not in jail.

2. During judicial custody, the police officer in charge of the case is not allowed to interrogate the suspect without the approval of the court.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

(a) 1 only

(b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE)

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PM-DevINE

Rationale of the Scheme

• NE states - well below the National Average in terms of the Basic Minimum Services (BMS) in the country.
• Critical development gaps in NE.
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Index 2021-22 of NITI Aayog.
• PM-DevINE scheme - Fund the development projects of the North-East.
• Includes both infrastructural and social sector projects.
• Central Sector scheme
• Part of the Union Budget 2022-23.
• Budget of the scheme - Rs.6,600 crore for a period of 2022-23 to 2025-26.
• Implementation - Ministry of Development of North-East Region.

Objectives of the scheme

1. To fund the Infrastructure in convergence with the spirit of PM Gati Shakti scheme.
2. To Support social development projects based on the needs of the NER.
3. To enable livelihood activities for youth and women;
4. To fill the development gaps in various sectors.

Practice Question – Prelims

With reference to Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE) scheme consider the following statements:

1. The scheme is being implemented through the North Eastern Council.

2. It will aim at providing livelihood opportunities to the youth and women of the north eastern region.

3. The central government is bearing the entire fund of the scheme.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct :

(a) 1 and 2 only

(b) 2 and 3 only

(c) 1 and 3 only

(d) 1,2 and 3

PALNA Scheme

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PALNA Scheme :Basics of the Scheme

• Mission Shakthi – Umbrella scheme of Ministry of Women and Child Development.
• Aim - Safety, security, and holistic empowerment of women.
• Implementation - 15th Finance Commission period of 2021-22 to 2025-26.
• National Creche Scheme reorganized under Palna Scheme.
• Palna, a sub-scheme ‘Samarthya’ of ‘Mission Shakti’.

Features of the Scheme

1. Focus on children of age 6 months - 6 years of working women in rural and urban areas.
2. Women are employed for a minimum period of 15 days in a month, or six months in a year.
3. Availability of Creche facility.
• 7.5 hours a day & 26 days a month to aid the working women.
4. Fee details of the Scheme.
• Given at the subsidized rate.
• Charges Rs 20 a month per child for families below the poverty line families.
• Non – BPL families, it is between Rs 100-200 a month.
5. Funding details of the scheme.
• Centrally sponsored Scheme.
• 60% from Union Government
• 30% from State Government.
• 10% from individual NGOs.

Objectives of the Scheme

• Providing Quality crèche care facility.
• Support nutritional, health, and cognitive development of children.
• Enable mothers to take up gainful employment and will lead to Empowerment of women.

Key Services offered by the scheme

• Sleeping facility.
• Early stimulation for children below 3 years of age.
• Pre-school education for children between the ages of 3 to 6 years.
• Supplementary nutrition (to be locally sourced).
• Growth Monitoring, health check-ups, and immunization in convergence with POSHAN 2.0.

Practice Question – Prelims

Consider the following statements about National Creche Scheme or PALNA.

1. It is a central sector scheme.

2. The Creche facility under the scheme is provided at free of cost.

3. This scheme subsumes the Mission Shakthi scheme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

How many of the statements given above is/are correct :

(a) Only one

(b) Only Two

(c) Only Three

(d) None