During the past four-and-a-half month, around 170 cases of gang-rape were reported in Madhya Pradesh, besides other crimes against women that includes 8,079 cases of missing women, 596 cases of kidnapping, 240 women murders and 32 women were burnt alive.
This information was given in the State Assembly on Monday by Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta in reply to Congress legislator Arif Aqueel’s question.
Aqueel in his question wished to know from the House as how many women went missing in the State from February 1 to June 15, 2013, besides how many women were kidnapped, murdered, gang-raped and burnt alive. How many of them were adults and how many were minorsIJ In how many cases of minor gang-rape, arrest was not made and the number of cases to be provided by district-wise.
Gupta in his written reply to the House informed that of the total 170 gang-rapes reported in the aforesaid period, 87 were done with adults and 83 were committed on minors. Shivpuri topped with 12 cases followed by Gwalior with 9 cases and Narsinghpur and Rajgarh with 8 cases each stood at third spot.
Similarly, in missing women cases, the number of adult women gone missing is 5,248 while the 2,831 minor went missing during the aforesaid period. Indore topped the missing women list with 708 cases followed by Jabalpur with 570 cases and Bhopal with 555 cases stood at third place.
Of the total 599 kidnapping cases reported, 104 were that of adults while 495 were minors. Sagar topped the kidnapped women list with 30 cases followed by 28 cases each at Vidisha and Gwalior while Indore with 25 cases stood at third place. 241 cases of women murder were reported of them 204 were adults and 37 minors. Satna tops the lists with 16 cases, Indore 13 and Khargone and Shahdol 12 each.
The women burnt alive were 32 with Dhar reporting maximum cases of 6, followed by Khandwa with 5 cases and Ashoknagar, Dewas and Raisen with 3 cases each stood at number three.