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‘3. Removal from one State to another State of prisoners, accused persons and persons subjected to preventive detention for reasons specified in entry 2A of this List.’ ”
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I am not moving amendment No. 291.
Mr. Vice-President : Amendment No. 292. The Member is not present and the amendment is not therefore moved.
I will put Dr. Ambedkar’s amendment to vote.
[The amendment was adopted. Entry 3, as amended, was added to the Concurrent List.]
ENTRY 4
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I Move :
“That in entry 4 of List III, the words and figures ‘for the time being specified in Part I or Part II of the First Schedule’ be deleted.”
[Entry 4 as amended, by Dr. Ambedkar’s amendment was added to the Concurrent List.]
ENTRY 6
†The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, there can be no doubt that the amendment of my honourable Friend, Dr. Deshmukh, in so far as it seeks to interpolate certain words dealing with the protection of children in entry 6 are out of place because entry 6 no doubt refers to infants and minors, but it has to be borne in mind that taking the entry as a whole, that entry deals with status. In so far as the status of infants and minors are concerned, these categories are included in entry 6, but “care and protection of destitute and abandoned children and youth” are not germane to their status.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : That was exactly why I had wanted to introduce an independent entry. There is an amendment already in my name which seeks to have an additional entry separately.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I was just going to deal with the amendment moved by him. These words could not be interpolated in this entry 6, without seriously damaging the structure of that entry No. 6. Therefore at this stage I certainly cannot accept the proposition of interpolating these words.
Now, Sir, I will deal with the general question of the protection of children. There can be no doubt about it that every Member in the House including myself and the members of the Drafting Committee could ever take any exception to the protection of children being provided for by the
*CAD, Vol. IX, 3rd September 1949, p. 931.
† Ibid., pp. 935-936.