India's track record on treating its most vulnerable section of population, that is women and children, continues to be dismal. Crimes against children show no sign of abating.
l According to National Crime Records Bureau, around 22,500 crime cases were recorded during 2008.The figure increased to 24,201 in 2009. Thus if a 7.6 percentage increase was reported in the incidence of crime against children in 2007 over 2006, the same figure was true for 2009 as compared to 2008.
l Cases of rape of children registered a marginal decline of 1.4 per cent in the year 2009 as against the same period of last year.
l A total of 6,377 cases of kidnapping and abduction of children were reported during the year 2007 as compared to 5,102 cases previous year 2006. Snatchings and kidnappings witnessed an increase of 16.9 per cent in 2009.
l The state of Madhya Pradesh with 4,646 cases, Uttar Pradesh with 3,085 cases, Maharashtra with 2,894 and Delhi with 2,839 cases accounted for 19.2 per cent, 12.7 per cent, 12 per cent and 11.7 per cent of the cases respectively in 2009.
l Delhi recorded an increase in all cases (from 8.2 per cent in 2008 to 11.7 per cent in 2009) and so did Madhya Pradesh (19.2 per cent as against 18.9 per cent the previous year). Uttar Pradesh witnessed a fall while in Maharashtra the percentage of crimes remained the same.
l While cases of foeticide increased, the silver lining was a perceptible drop in cases of infanticide.
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