Odisha faces an unprecedented surge in child sexual assault
THE statistics are startling —1,005 cases of rapes of minors were reported in Odisha in just the first six months of 2019, an average of 5.58 cases a day. These were the figures presented in the Supreme Court during the hearing of the suomotu PIL registered on the initiative of CJI Ranjan Gogoi in July. Though Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 3,457 cases, the incidence of child rape in Odisha is amongst the highest in the country when the state’s population is taken into consideration.
A white paper on the law and order situation in Odisha that the state government presented to the assembly on July 28 states that rape cases increased by 13 per cent in the past year, jumping from 2,221 in 2017 to 2,502 in 2018, an average of seven a day. More worryingly, other official data suggest that a majority of the victims are minors.
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