GOVERNMENT OF MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.59 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 24TH FEBRUARY, 2015/PHALGUNA 5, 1936 (SAKA)

MISSING CHILDREN

59. SHRI BHARTRUHARI MAHTAB: SHRI TARIQ ANWAR: SHRI : SHRI SANJAY DHOTRE: SHRI DILEEP SINGH BHURIA:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a) whether cases of missing children have increased in the country;

(b) if so, whether the Government has identified the reasons behind such increase;

(c) if so, the details thereof and the number of such cases registered, rackets busted, accused arrested, convicted, children traced/untraced, conviction rate achieved and the steps taken to trace all the missing children along with the action taken against the guilty, separately during each of the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise including NCT of Delhi and ;

(d) whether the Government has made it mandatory to register FIR if a case of missing child is reported and if so, the details thereof;

(e) whether the Government has received complaints regarding nonregistration of such cases, callous and irresponsible attitude of the police personnel dealing with the missing children cases;

(f) if so, the details thereof and the total number of such cases reported and the action taken against guilty personnel during the said period, State-wise;

(g) whether the case of missing children and human trafficking are inter- connected in the country and if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government in this regard; and …….2/

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(h) the details of the advisories issued by the Government to the States in this regard along with the other corrective steps taken by the Government to prevent such cases in future?

ANSWER

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

(a) to (c): As per information provided by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the sex-wise year-wise data on missing children is appended below, which indicates a mixed trend.

2010 2011 2012 2013 MALE 30954 34971 25702 25376

FEMALE 46179 55683 39336 39847

TOTAL 77133 90654 65038 65223

There are various reasons for children going missing which include, trafficking, running away from family, kidnapping, abduction etc. While data regarding rackets busted is not maintained by NCRB, the State/UT wise cases registered, cases charge sheeted, cases convicted, persons arrested, persons chargesheeted, persons convicted and conviction rate under kidnapping & abduction of children during 2011-2013 is enclosed at Annexure.

(d) to (f): In pursuance of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s order, the Ministry of Home Affairs has circulated an advisory to file mandatory FIR in case of missing children dated 25th June, 2013. ‘Police’ is a State subject, hence the whole process of filing a FIR, investigation and tracing the missing children is primarily the responsibility of the State Governments. No specific report on the indifference of police personnel and reluctance to file FIR in case of missing children is available with the Ministry of Home Affairs.

(g): All missing children are not trafficked, like runaway children etc. however, a vast number of them ends up being trafficked. …..3/

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(h): The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a number of advisories regarding missing children which are available in the website of Ministry of Home Affairs.

• The Ministry of Home Affairs has circulated an advisory to file mandatory FIR in case of missing children dated 25th June, 2013.

• The Ministry of Home Affairs has Issued a detailed advisory on the missing children and steps to be taken for tracing the children on 31st January, 2012. It includes various directions to States / UTs like computerization of records, involvement of NGOs and other organizations, community awareness programmes etc.

Apart from the above, the Ministry of Women and Child Development in consultation with the Ministry of Home Affairs has initiated a web portal named ‘Track Child’ in the country which is aimed at maintaining real time data of all missing children containing extensive identification details to facilitate matching of missing and recovered children

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CASES REGISTERED (CR), CASES CHARGE SHEETED (CS), CASES CONVICTED (CV), PERSONS ARRESTED (PAR), PERSONS CHARGESHEETED (PCS), PERSONS CONVICTED (PCV) AND CONVICTION RATE (CVR) CASES

SL. STATE/UT 2011 2012 2013 NO. CR CS CV PAR PCS PCV CVR PT CR CS CV PAR PCS PCV CVR PT CR CS CV PAR PCS PCV CVR PT 1 ANDHRA PRADESH 735 487 27 744 666 45 7.7 1052 781 620 26 826 831 44 5.4 1173 1014 732 20 1012 833 48 5.0 1500 2 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 15 11 0 14 12 0 - 78 20 14 1 20 14 1 100.0 91 40 22 0 32 23 0 - 113 3 ASSAM 29 19 0 30 13 0 - 72 68 22 0 68 22 0 - 92 80 48 5 75 50 5 16.1 109 4 BIHAR 1821 734 55 2027 1387 90 15.7 1751 2546 1100 27 1870 1983 46 5.2 2329 1180 990 53 1577 2023 88 17.2 3008 5 CHHATTISGARH 283 166 20 209 212 24 35.7 481 276 256 32 244 242 37 36.4 647 1634 508 27 435 428 43 27.3 1056 6 GOA 17 12 0 16 13 0 - 36 15 11 0 13 11 0 - 45 90 13 1 34 22 3 50.0 56 7 GUJARAT 605 501 8 721 744 24 6.4 2534 834 674 17 938 931 26 8.9 3016 1429 1030 20 1496 1379 24 8.7 3814 8 HARYANA 144 108 20 83 86 23 20.8 147 535 277 10 505 493 8 13.0 347 911 377 35 488 482 37 13.9 472 9 HIMACHAL PRADESH 108 61 2 66 56 4 7.1 114 97 55 3 85 69 6 13.0 142 198 70 8 81 94 8 26.7 180 10 JAMMU & KASHMIR 5 3 0 11 11 0 - 111 23 13 0 18 18 0 - 121 26 18 0 40 40 0 - 33 11 JHARKHAND 18 17 0 19 18 0 - 6 32 27 1 29 29 1 5.6 15 48 23 2 34 35 2 33.3 32 12 KARNATAKA 109 43 0 85 84 0 - 159 471 128 2 211 157 2 4.4 242 700 234 2 379 363 2 2.1 376 13 129 92 3 114 96 2 10.0 353 147 123 2 163 161 5 7.7 450 136 102 4 155 122 5 10.8 514 14 MADHYA PRADESH 517 429 96 585 601 154 33.6 960 630 594 67 735 742 108 23.1 1263 2262 874 97 1165 1147 152 22.7 1709 15 858 609 11 973 890 12 5.7 3316 893 704 7 1068 1047 8 3.3 3807 1698 922 8 1495 1359 11 4.7 4560 16 MANIPUR 65 0 0 43 0 0 - 0 61 1 0 26 1 0 - 1 56 0 0 6 0 0 - 1 17 MEGHALAYA 16 3 0 6 4 0 - 29 9 5 0 5 5 0 - 33 35 15 0 17 16 0 - 46 18 MIZORAM 3 2 0 3 2 0 - 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 100.0 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 100.0 2 19 NAGALAND 0 2 3 0 2 3 100.0 0 5 4 1 4 4 4 100.0 3 4 1 4 8 1 4 100.0 0 20 ODISHA 85 67 1 63 67 1 5.3 176 96 92 0 87 83 0 - 256 366 179 3 250 236 3 11.5 409 21 PUNJAB 349 169 35 390 284 61 30.2 405 459 182 26 356 275 39 28.0 494 690 293 61 493 348 80 32.3 598 22 RAJASTHAN 785 308 42 437 437 61 29.8 1255 847 391 107 518 492 126 30.7 1282 1426 541 91 709 699 181 38.9 1584 23 SIKKIM 7 5 0 6 6 0 - 11 6 18 6 8 7 9 60.0 19 14 14 12 25 26 12 42.9 5 24 TAMIL NADU 519 221 34 479 292 42 23.3 504 576 234 12 560 396 18 11.8 636 499 281 106 506 411 122 38.0 638 25 TRIPURA 28 21 0 39 29 0 - 25 0 3 1 7 8 2 16.7 22 21 17 1 20 17 1 50.0 37 26 UTTAR PRADESH 3739 2373 853 5760 3945 1299 57.0 4005 4239 2914 507 8394 5427 949 51.1 5916 6002 3708 558 12978 7389 985 54.8 8605 27 UTTARAKHAND 39 34 7 35 35 13 58.3 81 53 34 9 51 49 15 60.0 100 181 73 15 31 31 21 40.5 136 28 WEST BENGAL 660 375 9 544 456 10 13.0 784 767 500 3 558 355 5 3.4 1191 1388 444 2 739 701 3 2.1 1538 TOTAL (STATES) 11688 6872 1226 13502 10448 1868 33.9 18447 14487 8998 870 17368 13854 1462 23.8 23734 22130 11531 1136 24282 18277 1841 27.7 31131 29 A&N ISLANDS 11 15 0 10 15 0 - 36 8 4 0 7 7 0 - 39 12 9 0 3 9 0 - 44 30 CHANDIGARH 40 22 10 30 21 13 55.6 39 59 24 5 21 18 8 33.3 48 164 51 9 55 48 9 25.0 63 31 D&N HAVELI 8 6 0 3 6 0 - 31 6 8 2 13 14 2 40.0 34 10 3 1 2 3 3 16.7 31 32 DAMAN & DIU 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 2 2 0 0 3 0 - 2 8 1 0 1 1 0 - 3 33 DELHI 3528 379 113 439 551 119 46.1 1243 3686 330 143 438 372 148 36.5 1181 5809 406 86 603 474 108 27.3 1272 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 35 PUDUCHERRY 7 8 0 10 10 0 - 44 18 12 5 16 13 5 45.5 45 34 7 0 5 7 0 - 49 TOTAL (UTS) 3596 430 123 492 603 132 45.9 1394 3779 380 155 495 427 163 36.5 1349 6037 477 96 669 542 120 26.4 1462 TOTAL (ALL-INDIA) 15284 7302 1349 13994 11051 2000 34.8 19841 18266 9378 1025 17863 14281 1625 25.1 25083 28167 12008 1232 24951 18819 1961 27.5 32593 *******