The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court quoted the late South African president Nelson Mandela, and said: 'We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.' (Image generated using AI) The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court said on Thursday that the Maharashtra government cannot “without any reasonable justification, deny or delay financial aid to” institutions catering to children in need of care and protection, when it was “extending financial assistance to poor women” through schemes including Ladki Bahin Yojana. The court directed the state government to frame an appropriate policy within six months to provide salaries to deserving NGOs that run children’s homes under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, also known as the JJ Act. “Such allocation of resources must satisfy the test of reasonableness under Article 14.…