<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court has taken note of the alarming rise in the number of rape incidents against children and said it will pass directions to ensure a concerted and clear national response against such acts.<br />'' <br />'' A bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said it has decided to take suo motu cognisance of various reports of newspapers and portals on rising incidents of child rape.<br />'' <br />'' The bench appointed senior advocate V Giri as amicus curiae and asked him to assist it in framing guidelines on the kind of directions that can be issued to states on infrastructure and video-recording of the proceedings.<br />'' <br />'' It made clear that no third party except Giri and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta would be allowed to intervene in the matter.<br />'' <br />''The bench directed the apex court registry to register the case as a writ petition titled as "In-re Alarming Rise in The Number of Reported Child Rape Incidents" and posted it on Monday for issuance of directions.</span><br />