The Bombay High Court observed that very little was done by the state in case of child beggars or street children. A bench of justice Abhay Oka was told that there were around 37,059 street children in the city as per the TISS census and there was just one committee to deal with all of it. The court asked the state to come up with a detailed policy to deal with it.

The bench was told that as per the Juvenile Justice Act, 2016, a child needs care and protection, and a street child qualifies to the same definition. The court was also shown a TISS report made by Professor Asha Mukundan -- a census of street children that showed there were over 37,000 street children in Mumbai and only a single committee to deal with them.