Lone Child Seeking Help Might Be A Trap, NCIB Cautions Women

If a child is seen crying alone on the way and shows you his home address and asks you to drop him at that address, better seek police assistance than taking the kid to the mentioned address first. The warning, especially to women, has come from National Crime Investigation Bureau (NCIB) in view of the concerning trend in crime against women.

NCIB, an independent voluntary organisation, has said that the criminals reportedly employ children who pretend to be lost in public and use them as bait to lure women. In such a situation, then take the child to police station or call 100/112 and seek police help, NCIB has said in a tweet.

NCIB has warned that this may be trap as it is a new method of gangs of criminals who kidnap/rape girls or demand ransom. The organisation said that women travelling alone in public such as to school, college, office or market are specifically vulnerable prey in these situations, as the kids are more likely to approach them.

NCIB is an independent "crime and corruption killer team". It's website describes the NGO as working to keep the society "crime free and safe." With the trend of trapping women by engaging children rising, the organisation has put out a special appeal for the women not to get emotional seeing a child in distress and seek police help immediately before trying to help out the kid.

As far as crime against women is concerned, the Central government had informed Parliament in March that the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has recorded about a crore such cases in the last five years, according to a Hindustan Times report.

Its latest records shows that there was a 15.3% increase in crime against women in 2021 alone. Of the nearly 4.3 lakh cases registered, cruelty by husband or his relatives remained the prominent nature of crime against women while kidnapping and abduction formed 17.6 per cent and rape 7.4 per cent of the total registered cases.