Efforts by the Madras High Court to safeguard the mental health and psychological well-being of children who witness gruesome crimes have borne fruit, with the Tamil Nadu government agreeing to develop a dedicated framework to deal with such child witnesses.
A Division Bench comprising Justices M.S. Ramesh and V. Lakshminarayanan was disturbed to come across an appeal filed by 27-year-old P. Saravanakumar, who had murdered his elder sister in the presence of her eight-year-old daughter, thereby causing a great amount of mental trauma to the child.
