NEW DELHI: The Centre will prepare a National Sex Offenders List and make public the names of all those who have been charge-sheeted by investigating agencies for various types of sexual offences against women, the home ministry informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

“The sex offenders registry in Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) is proposed to be a consolidated national registry of charge-sheeted offenders in cases pertaining to section/acts specific to crime against women, for example Section 375 (rape), 376A (intercourse by a man with his wife during separation) and 376B (sexual favours taken by a superior officer from a junior),” the ministry told the SC.

The affidavit was filed by the ministry after the SC, taking suo motu note of MMS clips doing the rounds in cyber space about sexual assault of a woman, had asked additional solicitor general Maninder Singh to detail the steps taken by the government to tackle increasing cyber crime against women.

The ministry said, “A detailed concept note (on national sex offenders list) has been prepared and shared with concerned members for their comments. A module for the same is being finalized/developed under the Central Citizen Portal in CCTNS project under discussion with the stakeholders including National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).”

The ministry also announced two major steps taken by the government to stop cyber crime on the lines of the US system – Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) – after accepting major recommendations of an expert committee set up last year to look into cyber crime and to suggest a roadmap for effectively tackling cyber crime.

“In principle approval of minister for home affairs has been obtained for two schemes – scheme for setting up Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) with an estimated cost of Rs 464.28 crore from the allocated budget of MHA and a scheme for setting up Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPWC) unit with an estimated cost of Rs 244.32 crore (from Nirbhaya Fund),” the affidavit by joint secretary in MHA Vedantam Giri said.

It also agreed for setting up of investigating units for crime against women and said these units would reinforce the existing infrastructure for tackling heinous crime against women.

The expert committee had recommended setting up an advanced crime monitoring centre at the national level. “Cyber crime is no longer limited to personal computers but extends to other electronic devices like mobile phones, industrial devices and mediums such as social networking sites – chatting, email, online shopping etc. This escalating nature of criminal activity requires advanced cybercrime monitoring centre, with the capability to monitor different medium where criminals may operate,” it had said.