Question : Kidnapping Cases

(a) whether several cases of kidnapping of men, women and children have been reported in the country;

(b) if so, the details thereof along with the total number of such cases reported, number of men, women and children traced/ untraced, kidnappers arrested and gangs busted along with the action taken against them separately, 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?

(a)& (b): As per information provided by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 9552, 14216 & 19954 males, 38667, 52225 & 58492 females and 19586, 32726 & 38555 children were kidnapped &
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abducted during 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. Details on cases reported, total children, male and female kidnapped or abducted, un-recovered at the beginning of the year & at the end of the year and total recovered during 2012-2014 is enclosed at Annexure-I. State/UT wise cases registered, cases charge-sheeted, cases convicted, persons arrested, persons charge-sheeted and persons convicted under kidnapping and abduction (including male, female and children) during 2012-2014 is enclosed at Annexure-II.
(c): As per Seventh Schedule of the Constitution ‘Police’ and ‘Public Order’ are the State subjects, and as such, the primary responsibility of prevention detection, registration, investigation and prosecution of crimes lies with the State Governments/ Union Territory Administrations.

Ministry of Home Affairs has issued advisories dated 31.01.2012, 30.04.2012, 12.08.2013 and 25.06.2013 which are available on www.mha.nic.in. These advisories enumerates several measures for preventing trafficking and trace the children, standard operating procedure to handle trafficking of children for child labour, measures to
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be taken for rescue of trafficked child labourers’ and action against the traffickers/ employers and Hon’ble Supreme Court’s direction to file FIR in case of Missing Children.


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