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Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar with 1,359, reported second highest number of kidnapping of children in the country in the year 2010. So far the murder of children is concerned the state stood third.
The National Capital Region with 2,982 reported the highest number of kidnapping. Uttar Pradesh (1,225), Maharashtra (749), Rajasthan (706), Andhra Pradesh (581) and Gujarat (565) were third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh in the number of incidents of kidnapping.
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According to the National Crime Records Bureau as many as 5,484 children were sexually assaulted and 1,408 others killed in different parts of the country last year.
In all 10,670 children were kidnapped during the year in various states and Union Territories.
In Uttar Pradesh, 315 children were killed while 1,182 children sexually assaulted in 2010. There were 211 incidents of murder of children in Maharashtra, another 200 such cases were reported from Bihar and 124 in Madhya Pradesh.
Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh recorded 747, 451 and 446 cases of sexual assault respectively in the last year. Similarly, 382 and 369 such incidents came to light in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
In Delhi, 29 children were murdered and 304 others were raped in 2010.
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