Prevention of children from Sexual Offences Act

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Ministry of Women and Child Development

RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1044

ANSWERED ON JULY 17, 2014

QUESTION
Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act

1044. SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state;

(a) the total number of cases of child exploitation and sexual offences that have been recorded this year and those being prosecuted under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, State-wise;

(b) whether Government proposes to strengthen the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and ensure that it has sufficient resources/manpower and an independent capacity for investigations, to enable greater efficiency and effectiveness in the monitoring of the implementation of the POCSO Act, 2012; and

ANSWER
MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
(SHRIMATI MANEKA SANJAY GANDHI)

(a): The Government has enacted a special law "Protection of Children against sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012" which has come into effect from 14th November, 2012. Collection of data under the POCSO Act has been started since January 2014 through Monthly Crime Statistics of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Ministry of Home Affairs. Provisional State/UT wise cases registered under POCSO Act during 2014 is at Annexure-1. As per NCRB annual Publication 'Crime in India', a total of 7,112 in 2011, 8,541 in 2012 and 12,363 in 2013 cases under rape of children were registered. State/UT wise cases registered, cases charge-sheeted, cases convicted, persons arrested, persons charge-sheeted, persons convicted and conviction rate under rape of children during 2011-2013 is at Annexure-II.

(b) & (c): The NCPCR is already empowered enough under the provisions of POCSO Act, 2012. Under Section 44 of the POCSO Act, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and the State Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCRs) are charged with monitoring the implementation of the Act.

ANNEXURE- I

Statement referred to in reply to part (a) of the Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1044 for 17.07.2014 byShri Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
Cases registered against Protection of children from sexual offences Act, 2012 during 2014 (Provisional)

S. No	State/ UT	Protection of children from sexual offences Act	Remarks (Fig. are up to the month of..
1	Andhra Pradesh	110	March
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	Feb
3	Assam
4	Bihar
5	Chhattisgarh
6	Goa	0	Feb
7	Gujarat
8	Haryana
9	Himachal Pradesh
10	Jammu & Kashmir
11	Jharkhand
12	Karnataka
13	Kerala	145	March
14	Madhya Pradesh
15	Maharashtra	95	March
16	Manipur	0	March
17	Meghalaya
18	Mizoram	0	March
19	Nagaland	0	Only Feb
20	Orissa
21	Punjab
22	Rajasthan
23	Sikkim	0	March
24	Tamil Nadu	30	Only March
25	Tripura	1	Only March
26	Uttar Pradesh
27	Uttarakhand
28	West Bengal
	Total ( State)	381
29	A&N Islands	0	March
30	Chandigarh	0	April
31	D&N Haveli	0	March
32	Daman & Diu
33	Delhi	16	Feb
34	Lakshadweep	0	April
35	Puducherry	3	March
	Total (UTs)	19
	Total (All India)	400

Source: Monthly Crime Statistics

Note: 1. Data is provisional

ANNEXURE-II

Statement referred to In reply to part (a) of the Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1044 for 17.07.2014 by Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

CASES REGISTERED (CR), CASES CHARGE SHEETED (CS), CASES CONVICTED (CV), PERSONS ARRESTED (PAR), PERSONS CHARGESHEETED (PCS), PERSONS CONVICTED (PCV) AND CONVICTION RATE (CVR) UNDER RAPE OF CHILDREN DURING 2011.2012 AND 2013

Sl No	State/ UT	2011							2012							2013
Sl No	State/ UT	CR	CS	CV	PAR	PCS	PCV	CVR	CR	CS	CV	PAR	PCS	PCV	CVR	CR	CS	CV	PAR	PCS	PCV	CVR
1	Andhra Pradesh	646	468	37	720	561	55	11.1	613	624	46	604	705	56	9.7	770	616	42	820	616	58	11.5
2	Arunachal Pradesh	20	19	2	20	19	2	100	18	11	1	18	10	1	25.0	35	23	0	33	24	0	-
3	Assam	40	28	1	40	24	1	7.7	156	93	0	155	93	0	-	230	134	4	223	139	4	4.9
4	Bihar	91	84	10	93	99	12	15.2	137	113	17	148	141	17	19.3	86	117	20	96	116	21	38.5
5	Chhattisgarh	477	446	63	555	552	78	24.8	519	524	96	531	540	78	34.4	595	593	66	682	682	130	24.7
6	Goa	20	24	4	21	29	4	44.4	38	23	1	49	29	1	33.3	59	38	1	63	45	1	25.0
7	Gujarat	130	121	5	166	164	5	14.3	150	143	12	210	201	13	17.9	263	243	11	314	302	19	13.1
8	Haryana	66	62	27	73	78	28	27.6	276	245	15	379	379	15	16.0	388	335	49	477	468	58	22.7
9	Himachal Pradesh	72	70	11	83	81	8	39.3	89	73	16	129	118	23	35.6	130	124	32	205	198	28	29.4
10	Jammu & Kashmir	9	7	0	8	8	0	-	13	13	1	21	21	1	20.0	25	17	2	25	25	2	14.3
11	Jharkhand	16	14	1	16	14	2	10.0	6	2	0	4	2	0	-	23	9	1	10	12	4	14.3
12	Karnataka	97	96	13	147	147	16	21.0	142	130	17	178	156	19	17.3	270	203	17	330	293	14	11.0
13	Kerala	423	265	16	570	281	14	21.9	455	387	22	604	476	25	26.5	637	457	34	703	554	25	32.7
14	Madhya Pradesh	1262	1248	245	1524	1520	324	25.4	1632	1638	232	1970	1983	279	22.0	2112	2033	457	2538	2518	574	30.7
15	Maharashtra	818	720	48	1053	971	61	16.6	917	825	43	1257	1212	47	13.3	1546	1309	44	1932	1762	58	16.4
16	Manipur	19	0	0	5	0	0	-	17	1	0	7	1	0	-	40	4	0	3	2	1	-
17	Meghalaya	66	32	0	48	21	0	-	81	20	2	84	25	2	66.7	112	90	4	99	91	5	66.7
18	Mizoram	40	36	18	41	37	18	90.0	73	64	29	74	64	27	93.5	57	42	11	56	44	11	61.1
19	Nagaland	15	0	1	15	0	1	100	7	14	10	8	24	24	100	3	3	7	3	3	3	100
20	Odisha	165	150	11	150	150	13	25.0	192	174	7	242	232	11	23.3	509	377	20	479	469	21	28.2
21	Punjab	166	148	40	172	182	52	36.4	295	190	54	282	234	68	35.1	490	369	182	520	402	191	47.3
22	Rajasthan	394	272	61	328	326	68	37.4	572	408	111	491	488	142	34.5	892	689	99	902	903	232	35.6
23	Sikkim	11	12	12	12	12	12	70.6	21	30	10	19	12	30	40.0	25	25	48	43	50	45	73.8
24	Tamil Nadu	271	175	22	263	192	26	19.0	292	242	33	333	285	44	26.0	419	378	32	505	423	33	18.2
25	Tripura	45	85	14	144	96	18	28.6	17	36	2	12	45	12	11.8	43	51	4	68	54	10	33.3
26	Uttar Pradesh	1088	934	405	1573	1328	548	60.1	1040	930	250	1581	1349	333	56.4	1381	1166	264	2143	1701	334	61.5
27	Uttarakhand	23	21	7	25	25	5	63.6	34	31	15	33	30	13	62.5	32	28	20	39	38	29	60.6
28	West Bengal	252	108	7	182	115	6	18.9	285	186	8	178	138	8	22.9	377	335	9	354	377	13	14.5
	Total ( State)	6742	5645	1081	8047	7032	1377	31.0	8087	7170	1050	9601	8993	1289	27.2	11549	9808	1480	13665	12311	1924	31.3
29	A&N Islands	9	19	0	15	43	0	-	10	5	1	17	8	1	33.3	21	29	2	29	41	2	22.2
30	Chandigarh	15	11	7	17	22	8	63.6	17	21	7	18	18	8	36.8	19	13	15	27	14	16	65.2
31	D&N Haveli	1	1	0	1	1	0	-	1	1	1	1	1	2	33.3	4	2	0	4	2	0	-
32	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	4	4	1	9	9	1	50.0	4	4	0	4	4	0	-
33	Delhi	339	322	108	402	349	127	43.0	415	368	97	516	507	145	45.8	757	657	114	804	830	120	35.1
34	Lakshadweep	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
35	Puducherry	6	4	0	17	16	0	-	7	10	1	9	13	1	20.0	9	3	0	14	7	0	-
	Total (UTs)	370	357	115	452	431	135	43.4	454	409	108	570	556	158	44.3	814	708	131	882	898	138	36.6
	Total (All India)	7112	6002	1196	8499	7463	1512	31.9	8541	7579	1158	10171	9549	1447	28.2	12363	10516	1611	14547	13209	2062	31.5

Source: Crime in India

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