NCRB to track complaints on sexual violence
21st August, 2018Category: National
In a high-level meeting chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, it was decided that the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) would be the designated nodal agency for monitoring the complaints received on a government portal that records child pornography and sexual violence videos. The NCRB would coordinate with service providers such as Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp and ask them to block malicious videos and contents.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is only a crime record agency. A government notification has been issued under the Information Technology Act, 2000 to enable us take action against such videos. NCRB was set-up in 1986 to function as a repository of information on crime and criminals so as to assist the investigators in linking crime to the perpetrators. NCRB developed Crime Criminal Information System (CCIS) in the year 1995, Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) in 2004, and finally Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & System (CCTNS) in 2009. The CCTNS connects approximately 15000 police stations and 6000 higher offices in the country.
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