IGP assures support to HRCP for minor’s rights

Recommendations by HRCP regarding the rights of minors arrested by police should be implemented

LAHORE: Inspector General of Police Punjab captain (retd) Arif Nawaz Khan said that recommendations put forth by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) regarding the rights of minor children arrested by police should be implemented. Punjab police will fully cooperate in this regard, he said. He expressed these views while speaking to HRCP members who called on him on Thursday.

Khan added that directions defined in the Juvenile Justice Act, 2018 regarding the cases of children involved in criminal activities should be ensured, whereas police will see the matters of children of prisoners in accordance with the parameters of human sympathy and the law.

A focal person from Punjab police has been nominated so that matters can be resolved quickly. The four-member HRCP delegation apprised the IGP about the problems faced by the families of prisoners.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 30^th, 2019.