Digital Goa, Dec 4- Goa has earned a dubious distinction of having highest rate of minor rape cases reported in the country in 2022. According to the statistics released by National Crime Records Bureau yesterday, Goa’s rate of minor rapes is 7.1, which is highest in the country. Goa recorded 75 rape cases in 2022 of which 57 were minor girls below 18 years of age. What is alarming is rapes on minor girls constitutes 76 percent of total rapes reported in Goa in 2022. Goa reported total 73 rape cases in which total victims were 75. Of the 57 minor victims of rape cases registered under Section 376 of IPC in Goa, 2 are below 6 years of age, 12 between 6 to 12 years, 26 between 12 to 16 years and 17 between 16 to 18 years of age. Interestingly in 93.2 % of the 75 rape cases the accused was known to the victim. 68 of the 75 rape victims said the offender was known to them, in fact 9 of the accused were family members. There were 90 cases of assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty in 2022 in Goa.
*NCRB Data* https://digitalgoa.com/minorrapegoa/
*Other important crime statistics of Goa for 2022*
▪️ Crimes against women between 2020 to 2022
2020- 219 2021-224 2022- 273
▪️ Steady increase in Cybercrime cases
40 cybercrime cases in 2020, 36 in 2021 and 90 in 2022
Goa saw 32 cybercrimes against women in 2022 of which 4 were related to cyber pornography
The state also saw 3 cybercrimes against children of which one was related to cyber pornography
▪️ Total Missing and Traced Persons (State/UT-wise) – 2022
870 previous years, 638 in 2022 total 1508 missing of which 579 were traced in 2022 and 929 remained untraced. of the 929 untraced, 653 are male 276 are female
▪️ IPC & Special and Local Laws (SLL) crimes from 2020 to 2022
2020 – 4366 , 2021- 2991, 2022- 3679
▪️ 20 human trafficking victims in 10 incidents
▪️ Crime against Foreigners – 2020-2022
2020- 11 2021- 10 2022- 16 Chargesheeting rate – 76.9 %
▪️ Crime Committed by Foreigners – 2020-2022
2020- 80 2021- 40 2022- 67 Chargesheeting rate – 93.8 %
Of the 67 cases, 27 were violations of registration related guidelines and 27 were Narcotic drug related cases
▪️ Human Trafficking Cases (IPC) – 2022
2020- 17 2021- 15 2022- 1 Chargesheeting rate – 33.3 %
▪️ Missing and Traced Children (Below 18 Years) (State/UT-wise) – 2022
29 –previous years untraced or uncovered and 26 went missing in 2022 i.e. total 55 missing cases. Of the 55, total of 20 boys and 12 girls i.e. 32 are yet to be traced
▪️ Cases Registered by Railway Protection Force – 2020-2022
2020- 109 2021- 433 2022- 586 and 586 persons convicted Rate- 37.3
