{"id":56806,"date":"2019-07-19T14:05:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T08:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=56806"},"modified":"2019-07-19T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T08:48:46","slug":"child-safety-states-responsible-for-combating-child-abuse-says-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/child-safety-states-responsible-for-combating-child-abuse-says-centre","title":{"rendered":"Child Safety: States responsible for combating Child abuse says Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Women &amp; Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said states &amp; union territories are responsible for prevention, detection, investigation &amp; prosecution of crimes, including those related to exploitation of children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/download-2019-07-19T140150.329.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" data-attachment-id=\"56807\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/child-safety-states-responsible-for-combating-child-abuse-says-centre\/download-2019-07-19t140150-329\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/download-2019-07-19T140150.329.jpg?fit=256%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"256,197\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"download &amp;#8211; 2019-07-19T140150.329\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/download-2019-07-19T140150.329.jpg?fit=256%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56807\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/download-2019-07-19T140150.329.jpg?resize=256%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/download-2019-07-19T140150.329.jpg?w=256&amp;ssl=1 256w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/download-2019-07-19T140150.329.jpg?resize=130%2C100&amp;ssl=1 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>\u201cStates\/UTs are primarily responsible for prevention, detection, investigation &amp; prosecution of crimes including crimes related to exploitation of children through their law enforcement machinery. The law enforcement agencies take legal action as per provisions of law against persons involved in digital sexual exploitation\/abuse of children,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The government said that there are adequate provisions to deal with cybercrimes including under the Information Technology (IT) Act. The Acts have provisions to deal with publishing, browsing or transmitting child pornography in electronic form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSections 354A &amp; 354D of Indian Penal Code provide punishment for cyberbullying &amp; cyberstalking against women,\u201d Irani said in her reply.<\/p>\n<p>She listed the government\u2019s initiative to tackle cybercrimes which include Home Ministry\u2019s scheme under which a cybercrime reporting portal (www.cybercrime.gov.in) &amp; a twitter handle (@CyberDost) for awareness were launched.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The government has also blocked several websites containing child pornography or explicit images of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Women &amp; Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said states &amp; union territories are responsible for prevention, detection, investigation &amp; prosecution of crimes, including those related to exploitation of children. \u201cStates\/UTs are primarily responsible for prevention, detection, investigation &amp; prosecution of crimes including crimes related to exploitation of children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20124],"tags":[45073,45072],"class_list":["post-56806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-judiciary-legal-system","tag-child-abuse","tag-child-safety"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Child Safety: States responsible for combating Child abuse says Centre - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Women &amp; Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said states &amp; union territories are responsible for prevention, - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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