The national registry of sex offenders has a database of offen | Dr. B R AMBEDKAR IAS ACADEMY
The national registry of sex offenders has a database of offenders convicted under charges of rape, gang rape, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences and eve teasing.
The Criminal Law Act, 2018, provides for a national registry of sexual offenders.
The Ministry of Home Affairs launched the National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO) on 20th September 2018.
This online facility is exclusively for the use of law enforcement agencies having access to Inter-operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS). NDSO is a central database of sexual offenders in the country which is being maintained by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
The National Database of Sexual Offenders (NDSO) has names and aliases, travel and immigration documents, employment information, professional licenses, vehicle information, criminal history, photograph, fingerprints, DNA samples, Aadhaar card numbers and voter IDs, they added.
The data will be stored for (a) 15 years for those posing low danger, (b) 25 years for those posing moderate danger and (c) lifetime for habitual offenders involved in violent crimes like gang-rapes.
U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, South Africa and Trinidad &Tobago are some of the other countries having similar databases.
National registry on sex offenders – comprising those convicted on charges of rape, gang rape, child sex abuse and eve teasing – has crossed 1 million names recently.
