Assam records most violent crimes: NCRB data
The Hindu
Assam police attributed the crime rate to the high reporting and registration of cases, especially in crimes against women.
“Assam has retained the top spot in recording the most violent crimes in the country followed consistently by Delhi except in 2020,” the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2021 has revealed.
The statistics also showed that Assam has maintained the trend of recording an increase in such crimes after a dip in the previous year.
“But the crime rate of 76.6 cases per one lakh population – a little more than the 73.7 cases in 2020 – does not give the complete picture,” Assam police officers said. They attributed the figure to the high reporting and registration of cases, especially in crimes against women.
An analysis of NCRB data since 2017 showed that Assam led all the States and Union Territories across the country with 78.6 cases of violent crimes per one lakh people followed by Delhi (60.6) and West Bengal (51.4). The number of violent cases in Assam and Delhi increased in 2018 to 86.4 and 63.6 while Tripura dislodged West Bengal to take the third spot with 62 cases.
These three States maintained their positions in 2019 but recorded a dip in the violent cases – 83.4 in Assam, 58.2 in Delhi and 53.6 in Tripura.
In 2021, West Bengal ended up second with 51.2 cases behind Assam’s 73.7 with Delhi taking the third spot with 49.2 cases. Delhi and West Bengal interchanged places in 2021 with 57 and 48.7 cases per one lakh population respectively.
According to the NCRB data for 2021, Assam had 168.3 cases of crime against women per one lakh people, the highest in India. Delhi came second with 147.6 and Odisha third with 137.8.
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