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The Supreme Court on Tuesday said if poor people are not provided free treatment at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, it will ask the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to take it over and ordered the Centre and Delhi government to send a joint team to inspect its records

The Supreme Court has ordered a joint inspection by the Central and Delhi governments to ensure Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, operating on land with a lease agreement mandating free treatment for poor patients, is fulfilling its obligations. The court warned that if the hospital fails to provide free treatment, it may be handed over to AIIMS.  Here's a more detailed breakdown: Lease Agreement Obligation: The hospital, run by Indraprastha Medical Corporation Limited (IMCL), was obligated under a 1994 lease agreement to provide free medical and other facilities to poor patients, including 30% of indoor and 40% of outdoor patients.  Supreme Court Intervention: The Supreme Court took serious note of alleged violations of the lease agreement and ordered a joint inspection to verify if the hospital had fulfilled its commitment to provide free treatment.  Joint Inspection Team: The Centre and Delhi government have been directed to form a joint team to inspect the hospital's reco...
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Misuse of the POCSO Act: False Accusations and Legal Ramifications

  Misuse of the POCSO Act: False Accusations and Legal Ramifications Introduction: India is home to 19% of the world’s children, accounting for 42% of its overall population. India is a country known for its multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious population but there exist economically and socially downtrodden groups which face a wide range of challenges. Children are consistently the most vulnerable members of these groups. While it is true that girls are slain before they are born, those who survive are exposed to a variety of atrocities. Furthermore, India has the greatest rate of child sexual abuse in the world, with rape of a child under the age of 16 years occurring every 155 minutes, rape of a child under the age of 10 years occurring every 13 hours, and one in ten of these children being raped at any given time. On May 22, 2012, the Indian parliament passed the ‘Protection of Children Against Sexual Offenses Bill, 2011’, which ended years of a lack of explicit...
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