About 8k cases were registered under POCSO in India in 2015. Out of these, 11 were witnessed by the Capital
Another brutal rape of a three-year-old girl by her neighbour for over two hours, in a secluded room on Wednesday, highlighted once again the savage and sadistic assaults on minors in the Capital. The toddler's rape comes in the aftermath of a gruesome case last week, when a 7-year-old girl was abducted from a marriage function in Ghaziabad's Loni by her distant relative and raped. The girl was found in an unconscious state, bleeding from her private parts.
While in both cases the accused have been arrested, in another case, the accused is still at large. On Wednesday, a 13-year-old child was kept in confinement in Gurugram's Sector 40, and repeatedly raped by a man on the pretext of getting her a job, so she could support her family financially.
According to data by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 8,664 cases of POCSO were registered in the country in 2015 out of which 11 were witnessed by the capital. In an all over data of crimes against children, 94,172 cases were registered across the country out of which 9,489 were registered in Delhi. A breakup of this data showed 2,444 persons were arrested for murdering children, 12,473 people were held for raping children across the country, 58 arrests were made for infanticide, 4,166 for sexual harassment and 47 for voyeurism. Apart from this, 1,066 people were held for stalking and for kidnapping and abduction, a total of 28,054 arrests were made.
Recently, many POCSO cases have been witnessed in the Capital. In March this year, a four-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by her 16-year-old neighbour inside a semi-constructed toilet in outer Delhi's Narela. Police said that the juvenile accused was allegedly planning to bury the girl's body when another boy from the neighbourhood saw him and raised an alarm, following which he was arrested.
In another case, reported in May last year, a 14-year-old Dalit girl from north Delhi's Burari area was allegedly kidnapped and raped by her neighbour in confinement before he forced down her throat some corrosive matter which destroyed her internal organs, following which she died.
And in one the most gruesome cases reported under POSCO, an 11-month old infant was raped by a 36-year-old labourer at the office-cum-residential complex of the Delhi Police's 3rd battalion in west Delhi's Vikaspuri last September.
...& ANALYSIS
- Violent crimes against children are increasing in the Capital. Quick action by the police is needed to provide a strong deterrent.
- Cops need to be further educated on the POSCO Act to book offenders. Booking offenders under this Act can help make the sentencing more stringent.
- Education and awareness campaigns among the public at large and in schools may encourage parents and children to come forward and complain about abuse.
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