Last week, Advocate Sudip Mukherjee had filed a PIL alleging that the Juvenile Justice Board has not been set up in Kolkata and sought the court’s intervention.

The Advocate General of the state had assured the court in several cases that the state government took adequate steps for the implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act 2000, said Mukherjee’s counsel, Advocate Debasish Banerjee. But the state had failed to set up the Juvenile Justice Board.

The 7Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) at Bankshall court functions as the Juvenile Justice Board. The child accused or victims are produced in the court, the condition of which is inhuman for the child.

An office for the Board has been set up in Ganesh Chandra Avenue but it was yet to open. The Board should be set up near the juvenile home, he said.

The Bench wanted to know on the implementation the act in the state.