Crimes against children not hidden, criminals are punished: NCPCR on 96 percent rise in child rape cases

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‘Robust mechanism has been developed’

Reacting to this, NCPCR Chairperson Priyank Kanoongo said that a robust mechanism has been developed now to tackle such offences.

“Over the years, NCRB has developed a computerized system for FIR, through which data from police stations across the country is being maintained in the report.

The Government of India has set up a network of one-stop centres across the country which is ensuring that FIRs are registered in cases,” he said in a post on X.

The NCPCR chairperson also took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi against whom a case was recently registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

This data includes the “POCSO case registered against your leader Rahul Gandhi for revealing the identity of the victim and the case of cruelty against children in the orphanage running in his house in Prayagraj”, Kanoongo said.

पिछले सालों में NCRB ने FIR के लिए कम्प्यूटीकृत प्रणाली विकसित की है जिस से देश भर के पुलिस थानों का डेटा रिपोर्ट में संधारित हो पा रहा है।

भारत सरकार ने देश भर में वन स्टॉप सेंटर का जाल बिछाया है जिनसे मामलों में FIR दर्ज होना सुनिश्चित हो रहा है।
केंद्र सरकार ने किशोर न्याय… https://t.co/tOXihTm0NF

— प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo (मोदी का परिवार) (@KanoongoPriyank) January 29, 2024

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‘Crimes are not hidden’

“By implementing the Juvenile Justice Act 2015, the central government has provided necessary resources to the states for its implementation so that as per the provisions of the Act, Child Welfare Police Officer is appointed in every police station and a Special Child Police Unit is appointed in every district whose work is to look after the children,” Kanoongo said.

“State and National Commissions across the country are also registering cases promptly due to which reporting has increased. Now, crimes are not hidden and the criminals are punished,” he added.

Tagging a media report on the findings, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh in a post on ‘X’ in Hindi said, “Even children of the country are not safe in the ‘anyay kaal (period of injustice)’ of the Modi government. In the last six years, cases of child rape have doubled by 96 percent.”

The children are the future of the country, but in this “period of injustice” the children also need justice, Ramesh said.

“Today, every section of the country is suffering the brunt of the ‘anyay kaal’ of the last 10 years of the Modi government,” he said.

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