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Children's parks in Delhi like death traps, court told

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday was informed by a lawyer that conditions of children's park in the capital are in "deplorable conditions" and facilities there are like "death traps".A division bench of Chief

IANS Updated on: May 07, 2014 23:32 IST
He wrote to the high court, saying it was an issue of "serious concern" for children visiting the parks and their deplorable condition was a "violation of human rights of children".

In the letter, Justice Joseph said he found that slides were broken, swings were not properly maintained, there was no fountain working and in the Lake Park, there was no lake.

"In both the parks, I could infer that there was no responsible authority maintaining it. There was no one to guide the children. I feel there is serious violation of human rights of the children as it is their right in their tender times to have a decent environment to play and frolic around."
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