The observations were made by a division bench of acting Chief Justice K Sreedhar Rao and Justice S Abdul Nazeer during the hearing of a PIL challenging telecast of raids on hookah bars that showed schoolchildren.
The National Commission for Child Rights argued that students in bars were not "in conflict with the law or juvenile delinquents".
However, their faces shouldn't have been shown in the media as they come under the category of "children who need care and protection" as per law.
Responding to a submission that punishing children in school and at home is an offence, Justice Rao remarked: "Parents know how to correct their children. Nowadays, children are becoming errant and irresponsible... laws cannot be blindly adopted from western countries like the US... They can kill the Indian family system which has been praised by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. We will see only gun-and-drug culture like in the US if we adopt their laws on children. Home is the first school for most of our children."
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