Crime against Children

The total number of cases registered under crimes against children in the year 2016 was 106958, which rose to 129032 in the year 2017 and to 141764 in the year 2018.

The Government of India has recently amended the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 which has been notified on 06.08.2019 and made effective from 16.08.2019 with a view to provide stringent provisions for protection to children against sexual abuse.

The details of the number of prosecutions made under the POCSO Act from 2014 to 2018, State-wise, including Karnataka, as provided by National Crime Records Bureau is given below:

SL	State/UT	2014						2015						2016
SL	State/UT	CR	CCS	CON	PAR	PCS	PCV	CR	CCS	CON	PAR	PCS	PCV	CR	CCS	CON	PAR	PCS	PCV
1	Andhra Pradesh	932	601	29	1163	792	29	1054	772	78	1233	980	85	830	795	51	855	862	52
2	Arunachal Pradesh	56	51	1	57	62	1	54	38	0	63	48	0	59	39	0	58	42	0
3	Assam	506	223	8	489	223	8	819	453	15	802	453	15	821	511	43	824	512	43
4	Bihar	191	188	17	228	231	22	187	142	22	187	161	24	233	157	23	292	199	24
5	Chhattisgarh	1684	1608	191	1804	1812	263	1656	1606	524	2085	2047	562	1570	1576	354	1778	1773	378
6	Goa	107	76	3	116	96	3	79	98	13	79	107	15	75	56	13	82	60	13
7	Gujarat	613	527	5	779	705	5	1609	1317	8	1886	1801	8	1408	1302	5	1677	1691	6
8	Haryana	707	631	103	826	794	119	988	800	137	1041	1035	149	1020	844	94	1125	1035	130
9	Himachal Pradesh	209	167	25	246	221	33	206	198	27	264	280	37	205	177	25	255	234	31
10	Jammu & Kashmir	45	33	1	46	44	1	30	29	1	49	45	1	25	25	1	30	30	1
11	Jharkhand	112	102	13	136	116	15	182	136	28	175	144	28	348	222	17	363	244	17
12	Karnataka	1380	1073	27	1538	1282	29	1526	1266	32	1800	1516	32	1565	1323	55	1641	1451	58
13	Kerala	1392	1136	48	1483	1356	51	1486	1265	83	1505	1460	100	1848	1717	47	2671	2490	53
14	Madhya Pradesh	4995	4888	721	5888	5862	848	4624	4612	791	5634	5675	944	4717	4591	641	5678	5642	792
15	Maharashtra	3926	3342	112	4623	4187	129	4816	3791	195	5589	4711	219	4815	4291	250	5092	4983	279
16	Manipur	50	14	0	34	8	0	43	32	1	23	29	1	43	39	1	28	23	1
17	Meghalaya	118	126	7	122	131	7	167	112	2	153	135	2	151	116	28	153	126	28
18	Mizoram	165	127	37	140	101	38	169	189	101	171	190	102	167	148	54	174	153	54
19	Nagaland	17	6	2	15	6	1	15	13	4	16	16	4	27	25	6	27	27	9
20	Odisha	1126	909	14	1193	1129	16	1372	1202	39	1324	1282	40	1928	1566	38	1721	1661	48
21	Punjab	652	493	114	763	604	121	666	506	169	769	677	207	596	401	94	659	441	98
22	Rajasthan	1327	1020	133	1228	1217	152	1311	994	130	1210	1225	167	1479	1196	151	1479	1478	168
23	Sikkim	70	56	19	66	56	3	55	50	16	55	52	16	92	75	9	100	84	9
24	Tamil Nadu	1065	769	73	1158	893	65	1544	1268	133	1869	1530	143	1583	1249	199	1866	1480	214
25	Telangana	924	657	35	1332	1061	35	1394	1092	39	1343	1225	42	1158	1023	25	1625	1354	32
26	Tripura	245	174	9	228	206	11	133	136	12	141	173	14	156	129	24	165	133	25
27	Uttar Pradesh	8009	6847	302	12753	10565	410	4541	4342	874	7469	6715	1241	4954	4245	714	8452	6554	1003
28	Uttarakhand	189	161	16	186	188	20	168	131	79	207	194	85	218	158	38	238	193	45
29	West Bengal	1291	815	22	1062	967	22	1504	1816	21	1928	1858	22	2132	1494	48	1209	1303	48
	TOTAL STATE(S)	32103	26820	2087	39702	34915	2457	32398	28406	3574	39070	35764	4305	34223	29490	3048	40317	36258	3659
30	A&N Islands	29	22	4	34	27	4	39	37	0	38	37	0	49	35	1	51	38	0
31	Chandigarh	49	47	21	54	62	22	62	59	15	72	71	22	51	41	19	61	55	19
32	D&N Haveli	2	2	0	3	3	0	15	11	0	13	11	0	11	13	2	14	16	2
33	Daman & Diu	1	1	1	1	1	1	5	4	0	8	7	0	10	6	0	11	8	0
34	Delhi	2240	1480	162	1917	1621	202	1936	1563	218	1847	1757	238	1620	1258	156	1692	1443	179
35	Lakshadweep	1	1	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	5	0	4	5	0
36	Puducherry	24	20	0	18	21	0	49	33	2	41	36	2	53	43	0	46	49	0
	TOTAL UT(S)	2346	1573	188	2030	1738	229	2107	1707	235	2020	1919	262	1799	1401	178	1879	1614	200
	TOTAL (ALL INDIA)	34449	28393	2275	41732	36653	2686	34505	30113	3809	41090	37683	4567	36022	30891	3226	42196	37872	3859
Source: Crime in India

SL	State/UT	2017						2018
SL	State/UT	CR	CCS	CON	PAR	PCS	PCV	CR	CCS	CON	PAR	PCS	PCV
1	Andhra Pradesh	378	295	8	455	455	9	361	338	6	574	472	9
2	Arunachal Pradesh	14	4	0	7	6	0	24	23	1	26	24	1
3	Assam	1149	733	52	1356	1017	53	1721	1486	69	2140	1562	73
4	Bihar	1356	809	34	1710	907	35	2094	1273	104	2017	1801	136
5	Chhattisgarh	1676	1576	345	1890	1856	409	1812	1657	310	2190	2014	379
6	Goa	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	2	0
7	Gujarat	1697	1712	12	2333	2329	17	2154	2066	33	2783	2766	36
8	Haryana	1139	941	183	1258	1237	218	1924	1597	296	2129	2108	350
9	Himachal Pradesh	8	12	1	14	12	1	28	23	0	45	43	0
10	Jammu & Kashmir	0	0	0	0	0	0	32	24	0	35	34	0
11	Jharkhand	385	230	17	339	270	25	615	391	38	543	452	41
12	Karnataka	1956	1975	122	2600	2510	139	2036	2165	174	2739	2654	190
13	Kerala	1169	892	33	1258	958	33	1153	964	77	1386	1095	84
14	Madhya Pradesh	1569	1510	284	2275	2014	492	2445	2692	488	3256	3302	598
15	Maharashtra	5248	4507	498	6991	5321	566	6233	5269	525	7909	6251	583
16	Manipur	29	32	3	23	34	4	43	26	4	42	28	4
17	Meghalaya	242	151	5	269	207	5	266	174	16	249	197	16
18	Mizoram	194	186	48	196	192	48	138	171	27	184	176	33
19	Nagaland	41	37	9	45	37	16	9	13	9	15	14	9
20	Odisha	249	436	11	454	454	11	1887	1468	24	1680	1709	24
21	Punjab	489	384	60	528	543	79	411	354	82	455	441	105
22	Rajasthan	1180	905	89	1164	1150	110	488	396	102	510	503	119
23	Sikkim	87	93	19	124	115	23	118	112	25	140	136	35
24	Tamil Nadu	1587	1642	154	2406	1992	180	2039	2192	275	2767	2509	356
25	Telangana	1632	1061	31	1833	1355	38	1665	1376	69	2093	1792	72
26	Tripura	139	132	19	192	162	21	127	145	13	161	184	14
27	Uttar Pradesh	4895	4079	819	6303	6287	1796	5401	4401	780	7266	7147	1652
28	Uttarakhand	191	146	17	154	153	17	337	213	24	239	234	28
29	West Bengal	2131	1723	39	1923	1924	41	2267	2403	90	2430	2732	103
	TOTAL STATE(S)	30830	26203	2912	38100	33497	4386	37830	33414	3661	46005	42382	5050
30	A&N Islands	65	75	1	80	93	1	69	74	0	81	83	0
31	Chandigarh	3	2	0	3	2	0	2	2	1	2	2	1
32	D&N Haveli	12	6	3	8	8	3	21	17	1	18	17	1
33	Daman & Diu	5	3	0	7	7	0	3	8	3	10	11	3
34	Delhi	1623	1714	104	2209	2002	110	1839	1994	218	2584	2287	242
35	Lakshadweep	4	4	0	22	21	0	7	7	0	7	7	0
36	Puducherry	66	56	0	59	62	0	56	52	0	43	52	0
	TOTAL UT(S)	1778	1860	108	2388	2195	114	1997	2154	223	2745	2459	247
	TOTAL (ALL INDIA)	32608	28063	3020	40488	35692	4500	39827	35568	3884	48750	44841	5297
Source: Crime in India			Note: Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim for the year 2018

This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

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