The National Crime Records Bureau has released data on crime in 2017, with a massive lag of more than a year. Crime rose from 3,793 per million in 2016 to 3,886 per million in 2017.
Business
Standard : Nearly 100 more crimes took place per million
people in 2017 compared to the previous year (2016), though heinous
crimes such as murders
and rapes came down, shows a recently-released national data on
crime.
The
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Monday released data on crime
in 2017 with a massive lag of more than a year. Crimes rose from
3,793 per million in 2016 to 3,886 per million in 2017.
Crime
rate under state laws that pertain mostly to prohibition, narcotics,
excise, electricity-related ones and gambling rose faster than crimes
under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
IPC
crime incidence also rose, with crimes such as kidnapping, attempt to
murder on the rise, per million population.
The
incidence of rapes per million population has reduced, but women are
becoming more unsafe over time, with the overall crime rate rising
every year.
Crime
rate rises in 2017; women remain vulnerable, shows NCRB data
Among
states, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Rajasthan and West
Bengal showed a reduction in crime rates, while most others witnessed
a rise. Theft are rising the fastest.
The
crime rate in Delhi rose by 8 per cent in a year – the fastest
among states – to 11,500 crimes reported per million Delhiites.
Nearly
three million IPC crimes and two million crimes under state laws were
recorded in 2017. But this is an understatement, the report itself
notes.
“The
actual count of each crime per head may be underreported. This is
because among many offences registered in a single FIR, only the most
heinous crime (maximum punishment) will be considered as a counting
unit,” the report notes.
In
a first, crimes pertaining to communal violence were not compiled by
the bureau this time.
Incidence
of rioting reduced from 53 crimes per million people in 2014 to 46
per million people in 2017.
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