The crime rate has increased by 15 per cent in Jammu and Kashmir in 2020, according to data compiled by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
According to the NCRB figures, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh Union Territories saw 29,314 crime cases in 2020.
“It is 15 per cent higher than 2019. In 2109, J&K and Ladakh UTs had recorded 25,408 cases,” the statistics reveals.
Ladakh, where crime rate has been very low, alone recorded 403 crime cases in 2020.
According to NRCB data, at least 1222 cases were registered under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act -1985 in Jammu & Kashmir in 2020.
The NRCB data states that Rajasthan recorded the highest number of rape cases in 2020 with 5310 such cases.
It was followed by Uttar Pradesh with a total of 2769 rape cases having been registered in the same period. Madhya Pradesh with 2,339 and Maharashtra with 2,061 rape cases accounted for the third and fourth highest number of such cases.
Uttar Pradesh had the worst figures in terms of overall crimes against women with 49,835 such cases being recorded.
According to the NCRB report, crimes against women rose by about 11 per cent from 3,069 cases in 2019 to 3,414 in 2020.
There were 28,046 rape Cases and 3,71,503 crimes against women in 2020
“Nearly 77 rape cases were reported across India on an average every day in 2020, totalling to 28,046 such incidents during the year. Overall, 3,71,503 cases of crime against women were reported across the country last year, down from 4,05,326 in 2019 and 3,78,236 in 2018, the NCRB stated. Of the total cases of crimes against women in 2020, there were 28,046 incidents of rape involving 28,153 victims,” according to the NCRB data.
Of the total crimes against women last year, the maximum 1,11,549 were under the category “cruelty by husband or relatives", while there were 62,300 cases of kidnapping and abduction also, it showed. Besides rape, there were 85,392 cases of “assault to outrage modesty and 3,741 cases of “attempt to commit rape", the NCRB data showed.
“There were 105 cases of acid attack logged across the country during 2020. India also recorded 6,966 cases of dowry deaths with 7,045 victims last year,” the data showed.
Out of the total rape victims, 25,498 were adults, while 2,655 were below the age of 18 years, it stated. According to the NCRB study, Madhya Pradesh also recorded 17,008 occurrences of crime against children, the highest in the country during the period. MP also had the most number of foeticide reports (17), while the state also had the highest number of rapes of tribal women (339), followed by Chhattisgarh (195) and Maharashtra (129). It is little consolation that the 2020 estimates were only 1% lower than in 2019.
According to the data, a total of 50,035 cases were registered under Cyber Crimes, showing an increase of 11.8% in registration over 2019 (44,735 cases).
Crime rate under this category increased from 3.3 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2020. During 2020, 60.2% of cyber-crime cases registered were for the motive of fraud (30,142 out of 50,035 cases) followed by sexual exploitation with 6.6% (3,293 cases) and Extortion with 4.9% (2,440 cases).