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2019 Supreme(SC) 2331

RANJAN GOGOI, DEEPAK GUPTA, SANJIV KHANNA
RE: ALARMING RISE IN THE NUMBER OF REPORTED CHILD RAPE INCIDENTS – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Mr. Manoj V. George, Adv., Ms. Shilpa Liza George, Adv., Mr. Aakarsh Kamra, AOR, Ms. Bhavika, Adv., Mr. Renjit Abraham, Adv.
For the Respondents: Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG, Mr. A.N.S. Nadkarni, ASG, Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv., Mr. S.S. Rebello, Adv., Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv., Mr. N.K. Gokhle, Adv., Ms. Neela Gokhale, Adv., Mr. Ilam Paridi, Adv., Ms. Shradha Agrawal, Adv., Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv., Mr. Rajeev Ranjan Rajesh, Adv., Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv., Mr. A.K. Sharma, Adv., Mr. B.V. Balaram Das, Adv., Mr. G.S. Makker, Adv., Mr. P.N. Ravindran, Sr. Adv., Mr. T.G.N. Nair, Adv., Mr. V. G. Pragasam, AOR, Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv., Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv., Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR, Mr. Manan Bansal, Adv., Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR, Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR, Mr. Sherick Dhingra, Adv., Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, AOR, Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, AOR, Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv., Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR, Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose, Adv., Mr. Prem Sunder Jha, AOR, Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR, Mr. Anoop Kandari, Adv., Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR, Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR, Mr. Gowtham Polanki, Adv., Mr. Avinash Tripathi, Adv., Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR, Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv., Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, AOR, Mr. Gopal Prasad, AOR, Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv., Shalya Agarwal, Adv., Mr. Udit Bansal, Adv., Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR, Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv., Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Adv., Ms. Arshiya Ghose, Adv., Mr. Divyansh Tiwari, Adv., Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv., Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR, Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv., Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv., Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv., Ms. Geetanjali, Adv., M/s. Arputham Aruna and Co.,, Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR, Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Adv., Mr. S. Mahesh Sahasranaman, Adv., Mr. Annam D. N. Rao, AOR, Mr. Venkatish Rao, Adv., Mr. Rahul Mishra, Adv., Ms. C. Sharma, Adv., Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR, Mr. A. Rajarajan, Adv., Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv., Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR, Mr. A. Rajarajan, Adv., Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR, Mr. Samarth Khanna, Adv., Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv., Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv., Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR, Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv., Mr. P.H. Parekh, Sr. Adv., Ms. Tanya Chaudhry, Adv., Ms. Pratyusha Priyadarshini, Adv., Ms. Nikita Pandey, Adv., Mr. Nikhil Ramdev, Adv., Ms. Ashna Bhatnagar, Adv., For M/s. Parekh & Co., Mr. R. P. Gupta, AOR, Intervenor-in-person, Mr. B. V. Balaram Das, AOR, Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR, Ms. Palak Mahajan, Adv., Dr. Rajesh Pandey, Adv., Ms. Shweta Mulchandani, Adv., Ms. Tanuja Manjari Patra, Adv., Ms. Aswathi M.K., AOR, Mr. Kaarthi, Adv., Ms. Yogita Ahuja, Adv., Mr. Mahesh Pandey, Adv., Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR, Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv., Mr. Leishangthem Roshmani Kh, AOR, Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv., Mr. Aribam Jankinath Sharma, Adv., Mr. Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, AOR, Mr. Ankit Agarwal, Adv., Mr. Amartya Singh, Adv., Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, Adv., Mr. Anand Kr. Dubey, Adv., Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR, Mr. Jayanth Muth Raj, Sr. Adv., AAG, Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR, Mr. S. Raja Rajeshwaran, Adv., Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel, Adv., Ms. Garima Prashad, AOR, Ms. Harshita Raghuvanshi, Adv., Mr. Srinivas Vishven, Adv., Ms. Akshara Chauhan, Adv., Shreyase Agarwal, Adv., Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv., Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv., Mr. Amit Verma, Adv., Ms. Kajal Dalal, Adv., Mr. Prastut Dalvi, Adv., Mr. Naveen Kumar, Adv., M/s. PLR Chambers And Co., Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv., Ms. G. Indira, AOR, Mr. Piyush Dwivedi, AOR, Ms. Priyanka Dixit, Adv., Mr. Nikhil Goel, AOR, Ms. Naveen Goel, Adv., Mr. Dushyant Sarna, Adv., Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, Adv., Ms. Rekha Bakshi, Adv., Mr. Shaurya Sahay, Adv., Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv., Mr. P.S. Negi, Adv., Ms. Shruti Ram Kochar, Adv., Mr. K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv., Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv., Mr. Baibhaw Gahlaut, Adv., Ms. Upma Bhatacherjee, Adv., Mr. Arun R. Pedneker, Adv., Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Ms. Mukti Chaudhry, Adv., Mr. K. Parameshwar, Adv., Mr. M.V. Mukunda, Adv., Mr. Ankit Goel, Adv., Mr. R.K. Gupta, Adv., Mr. S. Kumar Jain, Adv., Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Ms. Anika Nissar Sayyed, Adv., Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Adv., Mr. K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv., Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv., Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv., Mr. Deniel Stone Lyngdoh, Adv., Mr. Vikas Mahajan, AAG, Mr. Joydip Roy, Adv., Mr. Vinod Sharma, Adv., Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv., Mr. Akash Verma, Adv., Ms. Monika Gusain, Adv., Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Adv., Ms. Mahima C. Shroff, Adv., Ms. Yashika Verma, Adv., Ms. Riya Thomas, Adv., Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv., Mr. Shailja Nanda Mishra, Adv., Mr. Arpit Parkash, Adv., Mr. D.K. Devesh, Adv., Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, Adv., Ms. Shashi Pathak, Adv., Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv., Mr. G. Prakash, Adv., Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv., Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Adv., Mrs. Beena Prakash, Adv., Mr. Vinay Arora, Adv., Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Jain, Adv., Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Annika Nissar Sayyed, Adv., for Mr. A.S. Syyed, Adv., Ms. Sneha Kalita, Adv., Mr. Kunal Chatterji, Adv., Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv., Mr. P.I. Jose, Adv., Mr. Harikumar V, Adv., Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR, Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv., Mr. D. Rama Krishna Reddy, Adv., Ms. Poonam Kaushik, Adv., Ms. Gagan Deep Kaur, Adv.

ORDER :

We have gone through the report of Shri Surinder S. Rathi, Registrar of the Supreme Court. In paragraphs 7.1 to 7.9 of the said Report, the relevant figures are mentioned, hich are being extracted below:-

“7.1 Percentage share of different types of offences under POCSO (National Analysis):

POCSO Offence

Rounded Percentage

Penetrative Sexual Assault {S.4}

Aggravated Penetrative Sexual

32.1

24

Assault {S.6}

Sexual Assault {S.8}

Aggravated Sexual Assault {S.10} Sexual Harassment {S.12}

Use of Children for Pornography

{S.14 & 15}

Abetment {S.17}

 

31

3

8

1

2

7.2 Gender-wise percentage of victimisation under POCSO FIRs:

Girl

Boy

Other

80%

6%

14%

7.3 Age profile of Victims under POCSO:

0-6 yrs

4%

6-12 yrs

13%

13-16 yrs

60%

16-18 yrs

22%

7.4 Whether accused is Known/Stranger or Relative of victim:

Friends & Neighbours

27%

Relatives

7%

School Staff

1%

Other known person

56%

Stranger

9%

7.5 Time taken in completion of investigation:

Within 30 days

18%

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