New Delhi: According to the alarming data pouring in from states, the countrywide crime on the elderly in India is rising by above 5 per cent.
"We are concerned about the elderly. We have been working on the Old Age Bill," said Social Justice Minister Meira Kumar.
The Old Age Bill is aimed at to give protection to the elderly and the Government is working on it for quite some time.
But the latest statistics on crime against the old age people made available to the Ministry of Social Justice has set the alarm bells ringing.
The data has been sent by the National Crime Record Bureau under the home ministry records an average 6 per cent per year increase in heinous crimes like murder, abduction and rape against citizen more that 50 years in age in the last two years.
Uttar Pradesh has recorded the highest crime against the elderly, but its neighbour Bihar is not even in the top five.
Although abduction and kidnapping in Bihar is still high but the along with Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, crime against the elderly in the state has come down by more than 15 percent.
To curb the worrying social phenomenon, the step Government could take is an early introduction of the Old Age Bill in the coming winter session of parliament.
"We are concerned about the elderly. We have been working on the Old Age Bill," said Social Justice Minister Meira Kumar.
The Old Age Bill is aimed at to give protection to the elderly and the Government is working on it for quite some time.
But the latest statistics on crime against the old age people made available to the Ministry of Social Justice has set the alarm bells ringing.
The data has been sent by the National Crime Record Bureau under the home ministry records an average 6 per cent per year increase in heinous crimes like murder, abduction and rape against citizen more that 50 years in age in the last two years.
Uttar Pradesh has recorded the highest crime against the elderly, but its neighbour Bihar is not even in the top five.
Although abduction and kidnapping in Bihar is still high but the along with Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, crime against the elderly in the state has come down by more than 15 percent.
To curb the worrying social phenomenon, the step Government could take is an early introduction of the Old Age Bill in the coming winter session of parliament.
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