Can you complain online for crime against women in your state? Read on.
Crimes which are “directed specifically against women” and in which “only women are the victims” are characterized as “Crimes Against Women”[1]. General crimes of which women may also be the victims are not referred to as crimes against women. Crimes against women punished under IPC are as follows: Rape (Section 376 IPC); Kidnapping & Abduction (Sec. 363-373 IPC); Dowry Death (Sec.302, 304B IPC) and Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961; Torture (Cruelty by Husband & Relatives) (Sec.498-A IPC); Molestation (Sec.354 IPC); Sexual Harassment (Sec.509 IPC); Importation of Girls (Sec.366-B IPC).
Crimes against women increased by 6.4% in 2012 as compared to 2011 (as per the records of the National Crimes Record Bureau), such an alarming rate of increase in the number of crimes against women has forced the concerned authorities to take effective measures.
In this age of internet, the effective use of the technology was important to tackle the menace of increasing crimes against women. It was important to make it convenient for the aggrieved to register complaint or to seek help from the concerned authorities.
Thus Police departments of various states and women organizations have made the complaint registration process easier and now the complaints can even be registered through e-mail, post or on the websites of the concerned department.
For the above purpose the former Union Home Ministry started an ambitious Rs. 2,000 crore project i.e. the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project. This project is aimed at making policing effective through e-governance and also at making possible the online filing of FIRs. Various states are thus in the process of implementing this project
National Commission for Women
National Commission for women (NCW) set up in 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990 registers complaints under various heads such as Acid attack, attempt to rape, bigamy, cyber crime, desertion, divorce, maintenance, dowry death, dowry harassment, female infanticide, harassment at workplace, molestation, outraging modesty of women, sexual harassment at workplace, etc. It has an online complaint registration system (introduced in the year 2005) available on its website: http://ncw.nic.in/onlinecomplaintsv2/frmHome.aspx. This system also provides for speedy and easy registration of complaints on commission’s email address [email protected] from any part of India or the World. The Non-Resident Indians Cell of NCW also registers complaints online on http://ncw.nic.in/frmNRICell.aspx .
Supreme Court
Clause 2(a) of the Gender Sensitization and Sexual Harassment of Women at the Supreme Court of India (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Regulations, 2013 says that a complaint of sexual harassment at Supreme Court of India precincts may be made to the Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) through its Member Secretary – Rachna Gupta, Registrar.The complaints can be made either by registered post, courier, speed post, e-mail or can be handed over personally. Aggrieved women can register their complaints by e-mailing to the Member Secretary Rachna Gupta at [email protected].
The Sexual harassment of women at workplace (prevention, prohibition, and redressal) Act, 2013 has also set up a grievance redressal mechanism where the organizations with staff of more than ten are to set up an internal complaints committee to deal with the complaints of sexual harassment. The state is required to set up a local complaints committee to investigate complaints related to sexual harassment from cases which cannot be dealt with by the internal complaints committee or where there is no internal complaints committee. To know more about the same you could do the prevention of sexual harassment course.
Measures Taken by Different States:
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh State Women’s Commission allows for the online registration of petitions on http://demo.cgg.gov.in/APWC/Login.do.
Arunachal Pradesh
The Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Women will soon provide for the online registration of complaints on http://arunachalwomencommission.in/?q=ocomplaints# though the service is not presently available.
Assam
Assam police provides registration of complaints by filling a form on http://www.assampolice.gov.in/help.php.
Bihar
Patna police has started online registration of complaints on http://onlineapp.bih.nic.in/PP_FIR/Index.aspx.
Chattisgarh
Chattisgarh State Commission for Women allows the complaints to be sent through post to the commission and also allows for the online registration of complaints on http://cgmahilaayog.com/case/.
Delhi
Delhi Police has started a campaign called as Parivartan for the safety of women in Delhi. This campaign has made possible the online registration of complaints. An aggrieved can now file a complaint by filling the form provided on Parivartan website: http://www.delhipolice.nic.in/parivartan/submitonline.htm
Delhi Police has also set up an Anti-Stalking Helpline in the Crime Branch. This ‘Anti-Stalking Cell’ functions with a help line 27894455, 1096 and also allows the registration of complaints through e-mail on: [email protected].
“Anti-Obscene Calls Cell” of the Delhi Police Crime Branch also allows registration of complaints through e-mail on: [email protected].
A ‘Crime Against Women’ Cell has also been established by the Delhi police for grievance redressal of aggrieved women. Apart from helpline numbers, Women’s Post Mail deals exclusively with complaints from women.
Delhi Commission for Women also provides for the online registration of complaints on http://www.delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/lib_dcw/DCW/Our+Services/Online+Complaint though as of now the internal server shows error when the link is opened.
To be able to help college and University girls, complaint boxes have been put up in universities & college campuses, these boxes are opened by the concerned SHO. After registration of these complaints in the Daily diary of the Police station; the required action is taken on them.
Apart from placing complaint boxes at every Police Station and at offices of various officers, a Post Box No. 171 at GPO, New Delhi, has also been earmarked for the purpose of filing complaints. Complaint letter can also be submitted by hand to the concerned officer.
Goa
Goa police or the state women commission does not provide for the online complaint registration mechanism.
Gujarat
Gujarat State Women Commission allows for online registration of complaints on http://www.scwgujarat.org/helpline.html.
Haryana
Haryana police http://haryanapolice.nic.in/Online_Complaints.asp provides a link for online registration of complaints but the link when opened leads to a grievance redressal portal of the Government of Haryana.
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh Police has also started online registration of complaints the link to the webpage is given below: http://admis.hp.nic.in/himpol/Citizen/OnlineComplaints.aspx.
Jammu and Kashmir
J&K has an online public grievance monitoring system but neither the J&K police nor the State Women Commission provides a mechanism for the online registration of complaints.
Jharkhand
Jharkhand police provides portal for online complaint registration http://esamadhan.jhpolice.gov.in/. Jharkhand State Commission for Women also provides for online registration of complaints on http://jscw.in/complain_registration.php.
Karnataka
Karnataka has made the process of checking the progress of FIR easier as the person lodging the FIR would get an SMS regarding the progress. As far as the online registration of complaints to the Karnataka Police is concerned, an article in the online edition of The Hindu dated 11th july 2008, says that the Karnataka Police department has started online registration of complaints but as of now you cannot not find any such link on their website http://www.ksp.gov.in. But Karnataka Government has started a Public Grievance Redressal System wherein web complaint may be filed by filling up an online form and detailing the grievances though it is not specifically for registering complaints for crimes against women http://www.janmitra.in/index_eng.php#two. It also provides provision for postal complaints.
Kerala
Kerala State Women’s Commission also allows online filling of the complaints http://keralawomenscommission.gov.in/vanithacase/admin/index.php?type=casefiling
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh State Women Commission also provides the facility for the online filing of the problems on http://www.mpswc.nic.in/samasya_darj_kare.html.
Maharashtra
Newspaper reports of February 2010 talk about the online complaint registration mechanism of the Maharashta police but presently no such portal can be found either on the Maharashtra police website or on the state government website.
Manipur
It does not provide for online registration of complaints.
Mizoram
It does not provide for online registration of complaints.
Meghalaya
Meghalaya police is working on the Crime and criminal network and system (CCTNS) project which seeks to provide for the online registration of complaints to the police, though as of now I could not find a link for online registration on the Meghalaya Police website but it provides the database about the progress of the CCTNS project.
Nagaland
Nagaland is in the process of implementing the Crime and criminal network and system (CCTNS) project.
Odisha
Odisha does not have a mechanism for the online registration of complaints. Neither the State women Commission nor the Odisha Police provides for online registration of complaints.
Punjab
NRI and Women Wing of the Punjab police allows online registration of complaints http://www.punjabpolice.gov.in/ComplaintRegistrationNri.aspx.
Rajasthan
Rajasthan Police & Govt. of Rajasthan has launched the ONLINE FIR registration system in Rajasthan under the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & System (CCTNS) project. But the website link to the ONLINE FIR is yet not available on the official website of Rajasthan Police. http://police.rajasthan.gov.in/
Sikkim
Any online complaint to the Sikkim police may be sent to [email protected] [email protected]
Tamil Nadu
The website of the Tamil Nadu police ‘www.tnpolice.gov.in‘ also provides an option for the online registration of complaints.
Tripura
It would also soon come up with the online registration of complaints as the Tripura Police is also working on the CCTNS project.
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand does not have an online complaint registration system for women, though the state has started a Samadhan portal for grievance redressal of the public.
Uttar Pradesh
UP Police has also launched an online portal for the registration of complaints under the CCTNS project by creating a user ID on https://cctnsup.gov.in/citizen/login.aspx. UP police also says that you can send your Complaints, Grievances and Vital Information helpful in prevention of Crime from your email to the Complaint Cell of Director General of Police UP headed by Inspector General of Police at 1-Tilak Marg Lucknow for prompt action on the following Email Address-[email protected].
West Bengal
As of now West Bengal has not come up with a system of online registration of complaints.
Online FIR registration by the concerned citizens of the country
Concerned citizens of the country have taken a measure to help those who could not get help from their local police or other government agencies. They have thus started a website (http://www.fironline.org/aboutus.php) wherein you can register your FIR online. The operators of the website publish the FIR on the internet. They also plan to send a copy of your FIR to the following people:Offices of the president of the country; Offices of a court of law/judge; National Newspapers; Other national or international organizations; Offices of the highest ranking police officers of the country, so that the authorities are forced to take action on your complaint.
Thus effective measures are being taken to tackle the crimes against women and to provide them a convenient method to register their complaints as now the complaints can even be registered through e-mail or post.
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[1] Violence against Women and Children-Issues and Concerns, By Awadhesh Kumar Singh and Jayanta Choudhury, New Delhi, Serials Publications, 2012, p. 2
Hi this complain is against a cruel person ever seen in my life.Who always been a worst person to my sister, my sister got married in 2011 due to misunderstanding between her and her husband she got a new friend, who always cared her for a use,of his need she got married at the age of 18,after fews years they both felt alots of misunderstanding lying in front of them,then only this person entered into her life,and that this one decision ruined her life.Now before one and half a year my uncle that is her husband passed away,so her life became more worster then she expected,she is a mother of 2 children. Now that person his black mailing her with few privacy photos which they taken,he is misusing her fb account and even spoiling her name in front of hers including our family name.Few times when he gets mad he use to post the pics of them in her fb account.Now I just want your support to get rid of this person without ours knowledge, specially my families knowledge, please do help us.
I was in relation ship…that man tortured me mentally so I stayed away from him…now he posted my photo in instagram and kept mine nd his dp….nd he is also posting status..I’m feeling threatened because he is a addict of something…I don’t want to say it in public so mam please help me…messsge me in my email….plzz
I’m roshni and I’m physically abuse by one person who’s name is pratik vasava he’s from bharuch, he’s use girls just to fulfil his sexual desire and after he’s don’t answered girls he has done with me unprotected and he even don’t bought one pill for me now he don’t answering me he have done these kind of things with many girls I’m feeling depressed he pampered and manipulate girls to fulfil he’s physical need and playing with her body and make her mentally ill I want to stop him so please give him warning
Am 30 years old .my boyfriend promised me that he will marry me in future and makes physical relationship with me for 4 years n now when I am forcing to get married he is denying …so I want to lodge an fir against him…kindly help me..
i am provding my fathers number 9436252065 i hope some of the peopl can call and warn him cuz i dnt want to register a complaint now or else he will know and wouldnt pay for my brother and also my mom doesnt earn so it will be a big problem. i just want him to realize that he has done many mistake and show a bit of regret mayb be shameful of his actions. and the most annoying thing is he looks and talk very sweet so everyone thinks he is very calm you know the how people say people who talk good outside are monster to their family. and he is the example can manipulate people. i dont want to write this but m so sick of it. so i hope please some expert call and warn him or scare him alteast he should understand the pain of a women.
yesterday i was beaten by my father the reason being i asked him some money for my younger brother as he is studying in college and his bank account was nil but my father instead beat me my whole body and head is in severe pain. where do i report this well he is not always violent but he has this mentality about patriarchy society and always dominate me and everyone in the family. i dont get it why this kind of cruel attitude. i am women and in my early 20s and i dont think its right to get beaten up by anybody even parents at this age. i wish someone could make him understand to not deal with violence everytime negotiation is another way but ofcourse with such an attitude wat can we expect m so tired of him being so full of himself. he thinks very high of himself. maybe he needs a therapy. the society should be about equality but he thinks he is above women. everytime he doesnt like anytning we say he will take any heavy item near him and will try to beat us and many time he succeeded too
in this metode
the government fast to respon?
tarun prasad is a con man. he is married but he hide his married status in all social media like Facebook Instagram and real life also. he spoiled many girls life. He Target the girls to maintain the lifestyle. at fast target girls on social media then gaining their trust and persuading them to believe something that is not true and taking advantage and money. His work just a show off. He has no money power. That’s why he target beautiful and well maintain girl. He is a big cheater with lots of emotional drama, fake story and always pampering new new girls in every year for taking advantage to maintain the lifestyle. He is a very violent man at the end. . you all can confirm that his event patner arnab paul phone number 089721 90800 .
and his brother profile link given below https://m.facebook.com/sanjeev.muku?fref=pb.please take some action for this guy. name tarun prasad, address kolkata tollygunge. And his home town is bihar. please save some girls trust and money and he always hide his married status for cheat more girl. he used many girls and when benefit has stopped he mentally abused that girl and cheated that girl very badly. some girl has tried self suicide He is an inhuman at the end then he pampering and manipulate new girl for new advantage and new adventure. Do not be fooled by his nice behavior. His event patner too very clever. And provoked him for all this. thank you be safe. save girls from his trap. Please spread this message for good cause
Criminal profile link below
https://m.facebook.com/tarun.prasad.733?tsid=0.6623393052723259&source=result
Phone number 9123015114
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hi im getting sexual videos from unknown person through facebook messenger for the 2nd timeso what should i do?
i have blocked it & reported to FB so i need to take some action on this abuser
Hi There are many law to protect women. What does a law do when a women decided to misuse the law by defaming any public with her rude activities and instead of accepting the fault/mistake from her end.
In the name of protection women can do disrespectful activities ? but the actual sufferer because of her should not raise voice to protect themselves?. on the spot activities by her is itself causing damaging/defame to public and by the time this goes to police should he not beat / raise voice to make sure further damage should not continue. (going to police by women itself as a token to use the women protection law)
is there an email id at which innocent men can email when are attacked by fake 498a cases. @Writers of this blog – I wish you would have researched an increase in the number of fake 498a , DV cases as well.
#fakeFeminism
I am a 59 years old widow and orphan. The only land property belongs to me is 15 cents which was abducted by my younger brother. I want to explain about it before you in detail. So please arrange an appointment or please hear me using other possible ways.
Expecting your help
faithfully yours
Nasima.
hi iam a 21 years old girl in india lucnkow iam facing those problem which all girls mostly dealt in their home as to live under wall of home and are not allowed to go out I am one of those girl I nedd help pls help me ,my family don’t allow me even to breath freely im emotionally tourcher n mentally tourcher icant even study properly just becoz of this thts why I have decide to leave my home as a girl iam 21 can I leave home without my family consent I want to make my carrier coz if I loose this time so definetly my future will never be good help me im struck with this problem need help otherwise in conclusion I will commit suicide
Is only sexual concerns with a woman. There is much more. Here in Patiala in a university run by a public Trust by a corporater all the authorities from her subordinates to Chairman and other corporate concerns like legal / Audit /HR heads connived/ conspied against a female hard working and honest Dy. Registrar( my daughter ) and from 2 years committed every nuisance humiliate Vague Charge sheet/indefinite suspension , staged inquiry, ( could not establisiasesh any fault ) biased meaningless inquiry report/ show cause notice for dismissal and finally dismissed now appeal is pending. Can not we imagine what is intolerance. Our Honorable CJI says there in no place of intolerance in India till judiciay is independent. When we contact advocate it is said that cause of action not arises we can approach court only after we exhausts all the remedies. Now how a middle aged women looking after her children/husband could maintain her as a lady who became a burden on her family. We have no law to protect a lady’s libety.
I am working in globallogic (noida-gautam buddha nagar) where my manager is continuously mentally harassing me at the work place. He along with other team members keep on finding the ways to dominate/Insult me. I got 3-4 rating in all points but still he forced me to proof my performance within a month and if not will fire me. Hes taking no action on team members ignorance behavior inspite of informing, just along with them keep on mentally disturb me. Even HR is also not ready to listen and take any initiative to solve the problem. Please help if seems very embarrassing and torturous at work place on daily basis.
A domestic woman employed in flat 14A Minto Park Syndicate, 13 D L Kan Road, Kolkata was molested by a staff Shr Lakhan of the said premises on 4 the morning out the apartment. The lady complained and a cctv video confirmed it. Shri Lakhan first denied it and the committee chairman of the Syndicate Sri Arun Mittal is pressuring the lady in question and the owner of the flat where she was employed to withdraw the complain and give a token punishment of suspension and sent on leave to his hometown in Orissa for two months till tempers cool down.
Sri Lakan is a habitual sexual offender and complaint have been suppressed repeated due to him giving favours to the Chairman and a few members of the committee.
The poor girl is petrified and fears that she may have to leave her employ if Sri Lakhan return and the fear of stalking her remains as well as the embarrassment. In the absence of a strong punishment to Lakhan.
The recent decision was to suspend him after three days as he shall be in charge of the Syndicate premises as the current Manager shall be on leave for these few days , then he is to go home on the alleged suspension without pay.
The committee has promised to reimburse him privately also ans make it as a complete show.
Can some woman activist help in bring justice against this atrocity and autocratic management committee decision?
A concerned Resident of Minto Park Syndicate
I need help. I did sex with my bf now he and his friends made a vedio of that and wanted to put on net and wants me to sleep with everyone in their group. Please help as in serious problem do reply soon can u help me without my family knowledge.
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very nice article, which gives total information & awareness to women’s, but I have one doubt to whom I have to Contact to made complaint. please kindly reply me.
All measures are taken to protect women however there is any law which made if women try to misuse the law against men…can a man file a countercase….Is there any law which can push her behind bars…no there is no such law…Bahu is women but mother,sisters of a Boy or man are not women.
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