Nagpur: Even when residents remain confined at home during a series of locking because of Covid-19 pandemic to May-June this year, the city witnessed recklessly in women.
RTI’s request has revealed that crimes such as rape, women’s trade and sexual attacks on minors witnessed a surge in the last 1.5 years pandemic compared to 2019.
Women’s rape saw the sharpest increase with 172 cases reported in 2020, compared to 136 in 2019 .
Until August this year, 149 cases have been submitted at various police stations throughout the city.
Similarly, cases of sexual attacks on children, who are registered under the protection of children from the actions of sexual violations (Pocso), witnessed the leap according to the answers by Public Relations Officers Crime Branch BN Nalawade to ask about Senior Activist Abhay Kolarkar.
In 2019, 200 Pocso cases were registered, which increased to 238 in 2020, while until August 2021, 142 cases were registered throughout the city police station.
Female trade cases almost doubled 33 years ago compared to only 18 of 2019.
This year, 10 cases have been registered so far.
Nalawade informed that the kidnapping and persecution cases saw a marginal decline compared to 2019.
By 2020, 246 kidnapping and 323 cases of persecution were registered compared to 404 and 339 in 2019.
This year until August, 229 cases of persecution were recorded.
In other violations, women’s deaths due to dowry demands by their in-laws recorded a slight increase in 2020.
Last year, eight deaths were registered, compared to five in 2019.
However, there was no one case of the death of this year until August.
Even harassment from the in-laws witnessed last year’s decline to 118 compared to 136 in 2019.
This year 103 cases are registered.
In three years, there is no one violation listed under forced on forced abortion.
Although there was no violation of the insults of women who were recorded in 2019, the four cases were recorded last year and this year.
Likewise, one case was respectively registered for acid attacks on women in three years, according to Nalawade.
Rape, female trade increases during pandemic: RTI query
