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Maharashtra tops NCRB chart in number of missing women
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- The highest number of women and children who go missing in the country are from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh respectively, according to a study by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)..
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- Supreme Court Directive to NCRB: In 2019, the Supreme Court had directed the NCRB to “analyse the data on missing persons (especially on women and children) so that areas prone to persons being trafficked can be identified”.
- “Crime In India Report”: The NCRB study was based on the annual Crime in India Report compiled by the agency for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018.
- Non Uniformity in incidences: Study Aimed to identify the areas where registered cases of missing persons, specifically women and children, are higher than in other areas because of the fact that incidents of missing women and children are not uniform across the country
- Findings in the Report of NCRB:
(1) States: Maharashtra and Madhya pradesh recorded the maximum number of cases of missing children and women among all other States in the years 2016, 2017 and 2018.
(2) Cities:
(a) Mumbai and Pune recorded the highest number of such incidents, with 4,718 and 5,201 women going missing in 2017 and 2018, while in Pune, the number of missing women for the same years was 2,576 and 2,504 respectively.
(b) The study said that in Madhya Pradesh, Indore reported the highest number of missing children, with 596 in 2017 and 823 in 2018.
(c) States where the highest number of women went missing in the three years are Maharashtra, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.
Sources
The Hindu