Lok Sabha Question No. 2606 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-15
Subject: Kidnapping Cases
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: VIRENDER KASHYAP

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2606

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 15 TH  DECEMBER, 2015/ AGRAHAYANA 24, 1937 (SAKA)

KIDNAPPING CASES

†2606.    SHRI VIRENDER KASHYAP:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether   several   cases of kidnapping of children  have  been reported in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the total number of such cases reported, children traced/untraced, kidnapper arrested and gang busted along with action taken against them during each of the last three years and the current year, State-wise; and
- (c)  the  details  of  advisories/guidelines  issued  to  the  States  in  this regard and the other corrective steps taken by the Government to stop such cases in future?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI HARIBHAI PARATHIBHAI CHAUDHARY)

- (a) & (b): As per information provided by the National Crime Records Bureau  (NCRB),  A  total  of  18,266,  28,167  and  37,854  cases  were reported under kidnapping and abduction of children during 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. Data on kidnapping of children is not maintained  separately.  State/UT  wise  cases  reported,  cases  chargesheeted,  cases  convicted,  persons  arrested,  persons  charge-sheeted and  persons  convicted  under  kidnapping  and  abduction  of  children during 2012-2014 is enclosed at Annexure-I. NCRB  has started collecting data on traced/untraced children since 2014.   As  per available data, number of children recovered (traced) and unrecovered (untraced) is also enclosed at Annexure-I.  The data on gang busted is not maintained separately by the Bureau.
- (c): As per the seventh schedule to the Constitution of India `Police` and  `Public  Order`  are  State  subjects  and,  as  such,  the  primary responsibility  of  prevention,  detection,  registration,  investigation  and prosecution of crime, lies with the State Governments/ Union Territory Administrations.

Ministry of Home Affairs has issued advisories dated 25 th  June, 2013 on Hon'ble  Supreme  Court's  direction  to  file  FIR  in  case  of  Missing Children and dated 14 th  July, 2010 on crime against children which are available at http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload\_files/mha/files/CSAdviMissingChild170713.pdf http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload\_files/mha/files/pdf/AdvCrime-children280710.pdf *****

State/UT wise cases registered (CR), cases charge sheeted (CS), cases convicted (CV), children traced, children untraced, persons arrested (PAR), persons charge sheeted (PCS) and persons convicted (PCV) under kidnapping and abduction of children during 2012-2014

|    |                   | 2012   | 2012   | 2012    | 2012   | 2012   |          |      | 2013   |         |        |        |           |                       |                         | 2014    |         |         |        |
|----|-------------------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--------|----------|------|--------|---------|--------|--------|-----------|-----------------------|-------------------------|---------|---------|---------|--------|
| SL |                   | CR     | CS     | CV PAR  | PCS    |        | PCV CR   | CS   | CV     | PAR PCS | PCV    | CR     | CS        | Childr en Recov ered* | Childre n Unreco vered* | CV      | PAR     | PCS     | PCV    |
| 1  | Andhra Pradesh    | 781    | 620    | 26 826  | 831    | 44     | 1014     | 732  | 20     | 1012    | 833    | 48     | 600       | 352                   | 240 516                 | 5       | 684     | 522     | 5      |
| 2  | Arunachal Pradesh | 20     | 14     | 1 20    | 14     | 1      | 40       | 22   | 0      | 32      | 23     | 0 66   |           | 26                    | 46 49                   | 0       | 50      | 37      | 0      |
| 3  | Assam             | 68     | 22     | 0 68    | 22     | 0      | 80       | 48   | 5      | 75      | 50     | 5      | 152       | 44                    | 0 325                   | 1       | 152     | 44      | 1      |
| 4  | Bihar             | 2546   | 1100   | 27 1870 | 1983   | 46     | 1180     | 990  | 53     | 1577    | 2023   | 88     | 1585      | 865 1074              | 812                     | 20      | 1688    | 1191    | 22     |
| 5  | Chhattisgarh      | 276    | 256    | 32 244  | 242    | 37     | 1634     | 508  | 27     | 435     | 428    | 43     | 1844      | 822 1381              | 914                     | 84      | 933     | 978     | 100    |
| 6  | Goa               | 15     | 11     | 0 13    | 11     | 0      | 90       | 13   | 1      | 34      | 22     | 3      | 134       | 17                    | 127 23                  | 0       | 40      | 27      | 0      |
| 7  | Gujarat           | 834    | 674    | 17 938  | 931    | 26     | 1429     | 1030 | 20     | 1496    | 1379   | 24     | 2101 1290 |                       | 1439                    | 1395 17 | 1819    | 1803    | 23     |
| 8  | Haryana           | 535    | 277    | 10 505  | 493    | 8      | 911      | 377  | 35     | 488     | 482    | 37     | 816 237   |                       | 602 788                 | 45      | 381     | 373     | 49     |
| 9  | Himachal Pradesh  | 97     | 55     | 3 85    | 69     | 6      | 198      | 70   | 8      | 81      | 94     | 8 210  | 53        |                       | 169 133                 | 1       | 92      | 72      | 1      |
| 10 | Jammu & Kashmir   | 23     | 13     | 0 18    | 18     | 0      | 26       | 18   | 0      | 40      | 40     | 0      | 139       | 49                    | 77 138                  | 0       | 122     | 68      | 0      |
| 11 | Jharkhand         | 32     | 27     | 1 29    | 29     | 1      | 48       | 23   | 2      | 34      | 35     | 2      | 94        | 48                    | 66 44                   | 7       | 92      | 61      | 10     |
| 12 | Karnataka         | 471    | 128    | 2 211   | 157    | 2      | 700      | 234  | 2      | 379     | 363    | 2      | 1177      | 352                   | 815 617                 | 5       | 721     | 485     | 6      |
| 13 | Kerala            | 147    | 123    | 2 163   | 161    | 5      | 136      | 102  | 4      | 155     | 122    | 5      | 130       | 131                   | 120 34                  | 0       | 160     | 160     | 0      |
| 14 | Madhya Pradesh    | 630    | 594    | 67 735  | 742    | 108    | 2262     | 874  | 97     | 1165    | 1147   | 152    | 6339      | 2083 2772             | 5344                    | 204     | 2701    | 2519    | 260    |
| 15 | Maharashtra       | 893    | 704    | 7 1068  | 1047   | 8      | 1698     | 922  | 8      | 1495    | 1359   | 11     | 2616      | 906 1882              | 1318                    | 12      | 1642    | 1330    | 17     |
| 16 | Manipur           | 61     | 1      | 0 26    | 1      | 0      | 56       | 0    | 0      | 6       | 0      | 0      | 69        | 1                     | 32 105                  | 0       | 15      | 0       | 0      |
| 17 | Meghalaya         | 9      | 5      | 0       | 5      | 5 0    | 35       | 15   | 0      | 17      | 16     | 0      | 43        | 13                    | 43 0                    | 0       | 22      | 13      | 0      |
| 18 | Mizoram           | 1      | 2      | 3       | 1 2    | 3      | 2        | 2    | 1      | 2       | 2      | 1      | 2         | 2                     | 1 1                     | 0       | 2       | 2       | 0      |
| 19 | Nagaland          | 5      | 4      | 1       | 4      | 4 4    | 4        | 1    | 4      | 8       | 1      | 4      | 7         | 5                     | 1 6                     | 3       | 7       | 5       | 3      |
| 20 | Odisha            | 96     | 92     | 0 87    | 83     |        | 366      | 179  | 3      | 250     | 236    | 3      | 800       | 259                   | 565 538                 | 3       | 392     | 347     | 3      |
| 21 | Punjab            | 459    | 182    | 26      |        | 0      |          | 293  | 61     | 493     | 348    | 80     | 871       | 247                   | 1055                    | 38      |         |         |        |
| 22 |                   | 847    | 391    | 356 107 | 275    | 39     | 690 1426 | 541  | 91     |         |        | 181    | 1814      | 660                   | 431 1302                |         | 658 866 | 432 849 | 47 133 |
| 23 | Rajasthan         |        |        | 518 8   | 492 7  | 126    |          |      |        | 709     | 699 26 | 12     |           |                       | 1017                    | 95 1    | 6       | 4       | 0      |
|    | Sikkim            | 6      | 18     | 6       |        | 9      | 14       | 14   | 12     | 25      |        |        | 17 7      |                       | 4 19                    |         |         |         |        |
| 24 | Tamil Nadu        | 576    | 234    | 12 560  | 396    | 18     | 499      | 281  | 106    | 506     | 411    | 122    | 390       | 177                   | 456 353                 | 39      | 437     | 385     | 63     |
| 26 |                   | 0      | 3      | 1 7     | 8      | 2      | 21       | 17   | 1      | 20      | 17     | 1 88   | 34        |                       | 50                      | 58 1    | 74 51   |         | 3      |
|    | Tripura           | 4239   |        | 8394    |        | 949    | 6002     | 3708 | 558    | 12978   |        | 985    | 5875      |                       | 1285                    |         | 11537   | 7508    | 1498   |
| 27 | Uttar Pradesh     |        | 2914   |         | 5427   |        |          |      |        |         | 7389   |        | 3955      | 5938                  |                         | 748     |         |         |        |
| 28 | Uttarakhand       | 53     |        | 507     |        |        |          | 73   |        |         | 31     |        |           | 107                   | 146                     |         | 120     | 16      |        |
|    |                   |        | 34     | 9 51    | 49     | 15     | 181      |      | 15     | 31      |        | 21 275 |           | 129                   |                         | 15      | 118     |         |        |

| 29   | West Bengal       |   767 |   500 | 3         | 558   |   355 |    5 |   1388 |   444 |    2 |   739 |   701 |    3 | 2351        | 1410   | 1673      | 3424        |     2 |   2432 1491 | 2    |
|------|-------------------|-------|-------|-----------|-------|-------|------|--------|-------|------|-------|-------|------|-------------|--------|-----------|-------------|-------|-------------|------|
|      | TOTAL STATE(S)    | 14487 |  8998 | 870 17368 |       | 13854 | 1462 |  22130 | 11531 | 1136 | 24282 | 18277 | 1841 | 31239       | 14433  | 21800     | 20733 135 6 | 28594 |       21479 | 2272 |
| 30   | A& N Islands      |     8 |     4 | 0         | 7     |     7 |    0 |     12 |     9 |    0 |     3 |     9 |    0 | 12          | 6      | 15 13     | 0           |     8 |           7 | 0    |
| 31   | Chandigarh        |    59 |    24 | 5         | 21    |    18 |    8 |    164 |    51 |    9 |    55 |    48 |    9 | 130         | 47     | 239 80    | 7           |    48 |          55 | 7    |
| 32   | D&NHaveli         |     6 |     8 | 2         | 13    |    14 |    2 |     10 |     3 |    1 |     2 |     3 |    3 | 8           | 3 0    | 16        | 0           |     3 |           3 | 0    |
| 33   | Daman& Diu        |     2 |     2 | 0         | 0     |     3 |    0 |      8 |     1 |    0 |     1 |     1 |    0 | 4           | 2      | 2 9       | 0           |     2 |           2 | 0    |
| 34   | Delhi UT          |  3686 |   330 | 143       | 438   |   372 |  148 |   5809 |   406 |   86 |   603 |   474 |  108 | 6452        | 586    | 5414 7136 | 73          |   492 |         612 | 78   |
| 35   | Lakshadweep       |     0 |     0 | 0         | 0     |     0 |    0 |      0 |     0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |    0 | 0           | 0      | 0 0       | 0           |     0 |           0 | 0    |
| 36   | Puducherry        |    18 |    12 | 5         | 16    |    13 |    5 |     34 |     7 |    0 |     5 |     7 |    0 | 9 5         | 3      | 10        | 0           |     5 |           5 | 0    |
|      | TOTAL UT(S)       |  3779 |   380 | 155       | 495   |   427 |  163 |   6037 |   477 |   96 |   669 |   542 |  120 | 6615 649    |        | 5673 7264 | 80          |   558 |         684 | 85   |
|      | TOTAL (ALL INDIA) | 18266 |  9378 | 1025      | 17863 | 14281 | 1625 |  28167 | 12008 | 1232 | 24951 | 18819 | 1961 | 37854 15082 | 27473  | 27997     | 143 6       | 29152 |       22163 |      |

Source: Crime in India Disposal of cases/persons by police/courts may includes cases/persons of previous years also. * data started collection since 2014, it also includes previous year kidnapping and abduction.