Priyank Kanoongo

India is already reeling under challenges like forced child marriages, Nikah involving minor girls, rampant trafficking under the guise of marriage, and systematic religious conversions under grooming tactics. Decriminalising adolescent sex may end up becoming a legal loophole for all these, and many other forms of abuse.

NCPCR calls for reforms in madarsa education, stressing formal schooling for all children under the RTE Act and urging states to stop funding non-compliant madarsas and removal of non-Muslim students from madarsas.

Taking to X, the NCPCR chairperson said: “Arshad Alam runs an orchestra in Bihar where Mission Mukti Foundation had complained about exploitation of minor girls. Following the instructions of @NCPCR_, Siwan police conducted a raid early this morning and rescued 6 girls.”

NCPCR demanded urgent action from the Jharkhand government on child abuse and trafficking cases involving minors at Missionaries of Charity.

According to the high court, the complaint purposefully included these remarks to sow discord rather than unity.

The NCPCR Chief categorically noted that Hindu children should not be in Madrasas at all and slammed UNICEF for drafting a radical curriculum for such Madrasas.

NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo on Saturday targeted Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav over his demand for DNA test of accused in Ayodhya gang-rape case.

The order was issued after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) in a joint operation with the UP Police busted a child labour racket in Ghaziabad's slaughterhouse

Priyank Kanoongo highlighted the instance of forced religious conversion and circumcision of a Hindu boy in a village near Deoband in Uttar Pradesh. The incident was reported in October last year.

NCPCR chairperson in an X post said that the Rohingya infiltrators are sexually assaulting girls in Meghalaya. The police have arrested 9 accused so far in the Chenga Benga gang rape case.