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Source: NCRBĪs many as 13,803 crimes against women were reported in Delhi city, or 38 every day, topping the list among 19 cities with populations more than two million in 2016, IndiaSpendreported on 1 December, 2017.ĭelhi city had the worst crime rate, 182.1 crimes per 100,000 women, against the national average of 77.2.Ĭruelty by husband/relatives most reported crime against women in 2016 UP was followed by West Bengal (32,513), Maharashtra (31,388), Rajasthan (27,422) and Madhya Pradesh (26,604).Ĭrime against women in India, 2007-16. Uttar Pradesh – India's most populous state – reported the most (15 percent) crimes against women in 2016 – 49,262, or six every hour.
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Delhi was followed by Assam (131.3), Odisha (84.5), Telangana (83.7) and Rajasthan (78.3). The union territory of Delhi reported the highest crime rate – 160.4 against the national average of 55.2. "I feel that due to media pressure on certain brutally violent incidents, there is greater awareness, and women are coming forward to report crimes."ĭelhi reported highest crime rate against women
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"There are no mechanisms to analyse such events," said Agnes. "More than the increase in crime rate, it is an increase in reporting," Flavia Agnes, women's rights lawyer and co-founder of Majlis, a non-profit that provides legal services to women and children, told IndiaSpend. Reported cases of crime against women increased 83 percent from 185,312 in 2007 to 338,954 in 2016. The state also recorded lesser number of rapes (1084 cases) in 2017, but had the dubious distinction of recording the highest number of acid attacks (19 cases), cruelty by husbands (16,800cases) and attempt to rape (1225 cases).The year 2016 saw the lowest conviction rate (18.9 percent) – percentage of cases convicted to cases in which trials were completed by the courts – for crimes against women in a decade.Īs many as 2.5 million crimes against women have been reported in India over the last decade. Bengal’s jump in the index is largely due its improved performance in human trafficking: from leading the table in 2016 to dropping to the fifth position behind Maharashtra, Telengana, Assam and Jharkhand.
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Kolkata Police will strongly move ahead with the motto ‘We Care, We Dare’,” the police chief added. Kolkata is and will continue to remain among the safest cities in India. “While these numbers give us confidence, it also raises the bar. This has reflected in the dipping crime rates,” Sharma said. A major impetus has been given to developing police-public relationship leading to greater public confidence and sharing of information leading to prevention of crime. Due to this focused approach, Kolkata Police has been able to successfully use technological advances in crime detection combined with traditional approach of core policing. “A large number of new police stations and specialised units have been created leading to improved policing. ‘Better manpower, focus on training reap benefits’ According to Kolkata police commissioner Anuj Sharma, the dip in the city’s crime rate is a result of improved policing following increased focus on infrastructure development, training and better manpower in the city police force. The one black mark in Kolkata’s report card was that it became the only city besides Delhi to record an acid attack in 2017. The city fared well in crime against women, too, recording 15 cases of rape and 53 cases of stalking in 2017 against 1,170 rapes and 472 cases of stalking in Delhi. The city’s crime rate has, in fact, been on a downward slide for the past four years with the total number of cases declining from 26,161 in 2014 to 19,925 in 2017, a decline of 31.3%. Kolkata was followed by Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Kozikode and Mumbai. Kolkata’s crime rate (crimes per lakh people), which in 2017 fell to 141.2 from 159.6 in 2016, is significantly better than the national average of 462.2 for the 19 cities with population of 20 lakh or more. Bengal, too, has improved its ranking - jumping to 11th spot from 19th last year - among 29 states in the same index. Last year, Coimbatore had beaten Kolkata to the top spot. KOLKATA: Kolkata has emerged as the safest among 19 Indian cities, including the metros, in crimes committed per lakh population, the 2017 National Crime Records Bureau report has revealed.