Madhya Pradesh faces serious problems with juvenile delinquency. Among the states of India, Madhya Pradesh has been topping the list of “juvenile crimes” under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) from 2005 to 2011 except in 2009 during which it ranked second after Maharashtra. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under the Ministry of […]
Children constitute 17.34 per cent of Mizoram’s total population. Mizoram may be a small state in terms of population and area, but the percentage of both child abuse and crimes committed by juveniles is quite high. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India in its “Study on Child Abuse: INDIA 2007” ranked […]
The State of Assam has been consistently ranking top in juvenile delinquency among the eight north eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. In 2011, Assam topped the list with 405 cases (402 of IPC crimes and 3 SLL crimes), followed by Meghalaya with 98 IPC crimes, Arunachal Pradesh […]
