Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No report in any newspaper, magazine, news-sheet or visual media of any inquiry regarding a juvenile in conflict with law [or a child in need of care and protection] under this Act shall disclose the name, address or school or any other particulars calculated to lead to the identification of the juvenile [or child] nor shall any picture of any such juvenile [or child] be published: Provided that for reasons to be recorded in writing the authority holding the inquiry may permit such disclosure, if in its opinion such disclosure is in the interest of the juvenile [or the child.] (2) Any person [who contravenes] the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be [liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty-]thousand rupees. Inserted by Act 33 of 2006 (w.e.f. 22/8/2006). Substituted by Act 33 of 2006 (w.e.f. 22/8/2006).