According to the police, a total of 105 FIRs have been registered all over Delhi during the operation.
December 22, 2022Government data showed that a maximum number of 9,572 complaints were received from Madhya Pradesh followed by 5,340 complaints from Uttar Pradesh. States like Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh also reported a large number of complaints -- 4,276; 3,205 and 4,685 respectively -- to the NCPCR in the last five years.
October 30, 2022Telangana Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy constituted a four-member committee headed by the secretary of the Department of School Education to look into the safety and security aspects of schools across the state. The committee will submit its recommendations in a week.
October 21, 2022The sexual abuse had been going on for almost two months and the matter came to light only after the parents of the child found changes in the child’s behaviour.
October 19, 2022Covid 19 pandemic put the entire humanity through various vulnerabilities putting children, specially at greater risks of physical and emotional traumas due to crimes related to sex. This despite the fact that most of the children were within the safer confines of their homes. According to recent National Crime Bureau Records (NCRB) data over 350 …
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July 14, 2022Geetika Tyagi said: "The one point that Saif is making through this film is how essential it is to break the silence surrounding this grave and dreadful issue."
May 7, 2022In the States and the union territories, the pendency of such cases till 31 January, 2022 runs to 2,26,728. The cases awaiting verdict in Odisha constitute 5.43% of total cases pending across the country.
March 26, 2022Building a bond of trust with your child is essential, right at a very tender age. You must tell them that you are there for them, you believe them, and will trust them if they wish to share anything with you and confide in you.
February 11, 2022The court also made it clear that if the cases under POCSO are less in a district then the special court might also deal with other cases such as rape.
December 17, 2019In the aftermath of horrific instances of child abuse in several girls’ schools in Kolkata, the recommendations of a Calcutta High Court appointed committee urgently call for reflection. The report was readily accepted by Justice Nadira Patherya on Friday, and the court has couched its concurrence with a directive to schools to urgently implement the …
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November 19, 2018The revised visa application will have a separate questionnaire about child sexual abuse, said Maneka Gandhi.
October 22, 2018Traditional, social and administrative barriers pose a challenge to bring change in Trans Giri Sirmaur.
September 12, 2018When an institution sexually abuses children on an industrial scale, you won't win back trust easily. This Pope is an extremist, ignoring centuries of tradition to announce opposition to all of it at once, like a papal Che Guevara.
September 2, 2018At a home run by 'Gram Swaraj Seva Sansthan' in Kaimur, a security guard was reported to be “sexually abusive”
August 19, 2018With cases of rape and sexual abuse of women at shelter homes in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh coming to light, Punjab government subjected its 67 children’s homes to checking as a precautionary measure but no complaint related to the abuse or child security came to the fore. An official spokesperson said the specialised campaign was …
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August 11, 2018About 97-98 per cent of child abuse cases are not reported to the appropriate authorities in the country, Supreme Court Judge Deepak Gupta said here at a symposium.
July 30, 2018An FIR has been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act 2012 against unidentified person.
July 5, 2018