The court had also asked the government to have more mobile courts to deal with beggary cases.

Delhi's lieutenant governor has approved the setting up of courts with a special metropolitan magistrate, a stenographer and a probationary officer, the state government informed the court.

The capital still depends on a 50-year-old law - the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 - to deal with begging.

Delhi has approximately 100,000 street children, nearly half of whom beg for a living.