Assam recorded highest crimes against women in 2021: NCRB Data

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• Sep 25, 2022 | Kabir Chakraborty

The figures show that Assam's rate of crimes against women increased from 154.3 in 2020 to 168.3 in 2017. Rajasthan came in at 105.4, followed by Odisha at 137.8 and Haryana at 119.7.

Digital Desk: According to the
National Crime Record Bureau's "Crime in India" report from the
previous year, Assam had the highest rate of crimes against women for the fifth
consecutive year in 2021.

The number of crimes reported for
every lakh persons is used to compute the rate.

The figures show that Assam's rate of
crimes against women increased from 154.3 in 2020 to 168.3 in 2017. Rajasthan
came in at 105.4, followed by Odisha at 137.8 and Haryana at 119.7.

According to the actual number of
cases Rajasthan (40,738), Maharashtra (39,526), West Bengal (35,884), and
Odisha were in second and third place, respectively, behind Uttar Pradesh with
56,083 cases (31,352).

In 2021, Nagaland had the lowest
rate of crimes against women (5.5). It also has the fewest actual cases-54-of
any country.

The Indian Penal Code, as well as
special and municipal legislation, were used to record a total of 4,28,278
cases of crimes against women throughout the nation last year. In comparison to
the 3,71,503 instances reported in 2020, the figure is 15.3% higher.

Decline
in criminal cases

Last
year, 60,96,310 offences were reported across the nation. When compared to
66,01,285 cases in 2020, this represented a 7.6% decrease in all offences.

According
to the data, "crime rate registered per lakh population has fallen from
487.8 in 2020 to 445.9 in 2021." "During 2021, the number of cases
registered under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) decreased by 13.9%, whilst the
number of offences under special and local laws (SLL) increased by 3.7% over
2020."

1,01,707
of the total instances involved kidnapping and abduction, 31,677 involved rape,
and 29,272 involved murder.

According
to the research, crimes against children, such as kidnapping and rape, rose by
16.2% throughout the nation in 2021. Madhya Pradesh (19,173), Maharasthra
(17,261), and Uttar Pradesh had the most cases reported (16,838).

The
research states that in 2021, there were 27.7% more instances of human
trafficking in the nation.