New Delhi, The Delhi High Court has directed the city government to apprise it of the status and the period within which vacancies in the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights will be filled.
The court also directed the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development to file an affidavit regarding this query. In one of the petitions filed in 2024, petitioner National Child Development Council said that the DCPCR was functioning without a chairperson since July 2, 2023 and keeping the post vacant for so long was clearly a violation of the provisions of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights Rules.
The High Court reminded the Delhi government of the warning issued by it in its February 18, 2026 order that in case the process of filling vacancies is not completed, the matter will be viewed “seriously”. “Let the affidavit be filed before this court in any case by November 18, 2026,” a bench of Acting Chief Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Sanjay Sharma said in its October 30 order. To this, the bench said, “We are of the view that the issue should be dealt with by a counter affidavit filed by the Chief Secretary, Delhi government”.
The court, earlier on several occasions, expressed displeasure over the city government’s failure to appoint the chairperson and members in the DCPCR despite its assurance to fill the vacant posts.
