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CONCEPT – Crimes against Women
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- The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has released the annual Crime in India Report 2017 in 2019
- Crimes against women constitute murder, rape, dowry death, suicide abetment, acid attack, cruelty against women and kidnapping. ‘Cruelty by husband or his relatives’ accounts for 27.9 per cent of the crimes against women. Majority of the cases are filed under this IPC section shedding light on the high prevalence of domestic violence in the country.
- A total of 32,559 rapes were reported in 2017 in India. Madhya Pradesh has recorded the highest number of rape cases at 5,562 cases being reported in 2017.
- Uttar Pradesh is second to MP with in number of cases of rape reported.
- 2017
- NCRB
- REPORT
- According to the report, a total of 3,59,849 cases were reported against women in 2017. In comparison, in 2016, 3.38 lakh cases of crime were registered against women, while 3.2 lakh cases were recorded in 2015. The number of cases reported has increased. Looking at state-wise data, Uttar Pradesh has again topped the list with 56,011 cases of crime against women. It is followed by Maharashtra with 31,979 cases and West Bengal at 30,002.
- ‘Assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty’ comprise 21.7 per cent, followed by ‘kidnapping and abduction of women’ with 20.5 per cent and ‘rape’ with 7.0 per cent of reported cases.
- Delhi, which is notorious for safety of women, saw a decline in reporting of rape cases. In 2017, 13,076 were reported, which is the lowest in the last three years. The number of rape cases registered in 2016 was 15,310 and 17,222 in 2015.
- Rape by known persons still constitutes a large percentage of all the cases reported. Out of 32,559 reported cases, in 93.1 percent cases the accused were known to the victims. The report highlights that 16,591 rape cases were reported against family friends, employers, neighbours or other known persons and in 10,553 cases, the accused were friends, online friends, live-in partners or separated husbands of the victims.
- Out of 5562 cases reported in Madhya Pradesh, 97.5 per cent were committed by known persons. Rajasthan with 3,305 cases, in which 87.9 percent of the perpetrators were known to the victim. In Maharashtra, 98.1 percent rape cases were against friends, associates or relatives.
- Based on state-wise data, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura can be seen as moderately safer than other states as they recorded the lowest number of cases.
- STATISTICS 2019
- Rajasthan has seen a 66% rise in crimes against women between January and July 2019 as compared to the same period last year, as per the police department data.
- As per the data, crimes against women have registered an overall increase of 66.78%. The total number of cases registered between January and July is 25,420 as compared to 15,242 cases registered during the corresponding period last year (2018).
- If we compare cases of women atrocities registered in July 2019, the figures stands at 4,898 whereas in July 2018, the figure was 2614, the police data shows.
- Between January and July 2019 period, there were 3,677 rape cases registered as against 2,587 cases lodged between January and July 2018. There were 5,329 cases of molestation from January to July 2019 as compared to 3,171 cases in the same period in 2018. There were 3,762 cases of kidnapping registered between January and July 2019 as against 2,687 lodged during the same period in 2018. Domestic violence cases also shot up during the same period from 5,884 in 2018 to 11,459 in 2019, while there were 273 cases of dowry deaths in 2019 as against 231 cases in 2018, the data shows.
- Regarding disposal of the crime cases, in 8,032 of the 25,420 cases or 47.22%, police filed final reports (FRs) saying the case was found to be false after investigation. Challans were presented in 8,946 cases and 8,412 cases are pending.
- Jaipur commissionerate has seen a 105.74% increase in crimes against women in the period between January and July 2019 as compared to the corresponding period in 2018, followed by Jodhpur range with an increase of 79.23% and Ajmer range with a rise of 70.86%.
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