Crime Rate Drops in State: AP Home Minister
1 month ago

Crime Rate Drops in State: AP Home Minister

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Home Minister Vangalapudi Anitha has claimed that the crime rate in Andhra Pradesh has come down during the past five months of the alliance government. The crime rate has come down in the state after the TD-led government took charge in June last, she claimed. The present government, she said, took several steps to control crime and these include: establishment of Mahila Police Stations in all 26 districts, setting up of Women Help Desks, strengthening of police patrolling teams, closer inter-departmental coordination and activation of cyber crime teams. The other steps were strengthening of surveillance, spreading awareness among the public on crimes against women, formation of anti-human trafficking units, speedy trials of heinous crime against women and children and cases related to child pornography and child sexual abuse, she said.

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Hyderabad’s crime rate up by 40 per cent in 2024, says annual report
18 hours, 55 minutes ago

Hyderabad’s crime rate up by 40 per cent in 2024, says annual report

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Police Commissioner C V Anand said that the crime rate in the city witnessed more than 40% increase in overall crimes in 2024 compared to the previous year. The CP on Sunday released the ‘Hyderabad City Police Annual report- 2024’ at ICCC, here. C V Anand attributed the increase in crime rate in the city to an increase …

Rise in Crime Against Women and Children in Andhra Pradesh: A Crisis Requiring Urgent Attention
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Rise in Crime Against Women and Children in Andhra Pradesh: A Crisis Requiring Urgent Attention

India Today  

Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has expressed outrage over the rise in crime against women and children in the state, citing data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The data revealed a significant increase in crimes against women, with a 43% rise recorded in 2022 compared to the previous year. The state ranks sixth in the country …

AP Needs Visible Change in Policing: CM Naidu
4 months ago

AP Needs Visible Change in Policing: CM Naidu

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday underlined that there should be a clear change in policing within Andhra Pradesh. Home minister Vangalapudi Anitha, director general of police Dwaraka Tirumala Rao and senior home and police department officials were present at the meeting. Police officials informed the CM that compared to 2014–19, crime rate went up by 46 per …

NTR District Sees 19% Dip in Crime Rate
11 months, 3 weeks ago

NTR District Sees 19% Dip in Crime Rate

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: NTR district commissioner of police Kanthi Rana Tata said that overall crime rate registered a 19 per cent decrease while crimes against women also dipped by 16 per cent in the corresponding year 2023 due to conviction based policing and awareness programmes. Addressing the annual meet at Vijayawada on Saturday, the CP said that while over 17,174 crime cases …

Crimes against women and children rise in Andhra Pradesh in 2022, says NCRB data
1 year ago

Crimes against women and children rise in Andhra Pradesh in 2022, says NCRB data

The Hindu  

Crimes against women and children saw a rise in Andhra Pradesh in the year 2022, as per the data released recently by the National Crime Records Bureau. Andhra Pradesh stood sixth in the country in the number of cases of crime against women. “Women are increasingly coming forward to lodge complaint whenever in distress, and therefore there is a rise …

Proactive policing brought down crime rate in Andhra Pradesh, asserts DGP
1 year, 11 months ago

Proactive policing brought down crime rate in Andhra Pradesh, asserts DGP

The Hindu  

Andhra Pradesh has witnessed a decline in crimes and law and order incidents such as murders, rioting, rape and SC/ST Atrocities Act cases in 2022, said Director General of Police K.V. He said several initiatives taken up by the police department were fruitful and the number of cases registered have came down by 18% from 2.84 lakh in 2021 to …

India lodged more than 5,100 offences against State in 2021; 8,600 pending investigations: Government data
2 years, 3 months ago

India lodged more than 5,100 offences against State in 2021; 8,600 pending investigations: Government data

The Hindu  

India lodged 5,164 cases of offences against the State, including those under sedition, Official Secrets Act, and the Unlawful Activities Act, in 2021 with an average of 14 cases every day, according to latest government data. “Of the total such cases last year, 79.2% were registered under The Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act followed by 814 cases under …

India Witnesses Nearly 20% Increase in Rapes in 2021; Govt Data Shows Average 86 Cases Lodged Daily
2 years, 3 months ago

India Witnesses Nearly 20% Increase in Rapes in 2021; Govt Data Shows Average 86 Cases Lodged Daily

News 18  

India registered 31,677 cases of rape in 2021 — an average 86 daily — while nearly 49 cases of crime against women were lodged every single hour, according to the latest government report on crimes in the country. The number of rape cases in 2020 was 28,046, while it was 32,033 in 2019, the National Crime Records Bureau’s ‘Crime in …

Human trafficking cases decline marginally in AP in 2021
2 years, 3 months ago

Human trafficking cases decline marginally in AP in 2021

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The number of human trafficking cases in Andhra Pradesh has come down to 168 in 2021 against 171 in 2020. The state registered 397 incidents of abetment to suicide of women booked under sections 305/306 of IPC and 108 cases of dowry deaths and two incidents of murder with rape or gang rape. The IPC crimes registered against women …

Violent crimes in 2021 back to pre-pandemic levels
2 years, 3 months ago

Violent crimes in 2021 back to pre-pandemic levels

The Hindu  

Registered violent crimes such as rape, kidnapping, crimes against children and robberies increased again across India in 2021, after pandemic-related restrictions led to a decline in these severe offences in 2020. They were also recorded under ‘Other IPC Crimes’ and ‘Other State Local Acts.’ The number of cases filed under Section 188 of the IPC almost halved from 6.12 lakh …

Data | Section 153A: Cases jump six-fold, only 1 in 5 convicted
2 years, 6 months ago

Data | Section 153A: Cases jump six-fold, only 1 in 5 convicted

The Hindu  

Delhi University professor Ratan Lal was arrested on May 20 over a social media post related to the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi. Among select major crimes, cases registered under Section 153A have among the lowest conviction rates and the second highest police pendency rate. All India cases The chart shows the number of cases filed under Section 153A over the …

Crime Against Women Up Across Tamil Nadu in 2021
2 years, 7 months ago

Crime Against Women Up Across Tamil Nadu in 2021

News 18  

The crime rate against women was on the rise in Tamil Nadu in 2021, according to the statistics tabled in the state assembly on Tuesday. In particular, the NCW said that the number of complaints received last year after 2014 was 30 per cent higher than the 23,722 complaints against crimes against women in 2020. According to the law, 2,396 …

Sexual crimes against women up 70% in 2 decades
2 years, 8 months ago

Sexual crimes against women up 70% in 2 decades

Live Mint  

India’s rape-related crime rate rose 70.7% over the last two decades from 11.6 per 100,000 women and girls in 2001 to 19.8 in 2018, according to a report by Public Health Foundation of India. While the least number of cases were reported in Bihar with a rate of 1.8 per 100,000 Odisha was high up on the list with 49.4 …

25% Rise in Crimes Against Women in Andhra Pradesh in 2021
2 years, 11 months ago

25% Rise in Crimes Against Women in Andhra Pradesh in 2021

News 18  

Crimes Against Women cases has gone up by over 25 per cent in Andhra Pradesh in 2021, while the average days taken for investigation was considerably down to 42 days from 102 in 2020. The cases of crime against women, which constitute 14 per cent in the overall crimes in the state, were at 17,736 in 2021 while it was …

2020 NCRB report of crimes in India: Year of the ‘anti-national’
3 years, 2 months ago

2020 NCRB report of crimes in India: Year of the ‘anti-national’

The Hindu  

In August Union Home Minister Amit Shah, speaking in Lucknow, lauded the Adityanath administration for taking Uttar Pradesh to the “top spot” in terms of law and order. Of the 5,613 cases registered under “offences against the state” in 2020 in the country, a whopping 80.6 per cent were registered under the Damage to Public Property Act, followed by 14.2 …

Delhi reported maximum number of rapes and murders in 2020 among 19 metros, shows NCRB data
3 years, 3 months ago

Delhi reported maximum number of rapes and murders in 2020 among 19 metros, shows NCRB data

Firstpost  

The capital accounted for nearly 40 percent of all rapes and almost 25 percent murder cases in the last year New Delhi: Delhi accounted for nearly 40 percent of all rape cases and almost 25 percent murder cases among 19 metropolitan cities in India in 2020, according to latest government data. Altogether, 1,849 murder cases and 2,533 rape cases were …

IPC, SLL cases go up in last two years in Andhra Pradesh, says NCRB report
3 years, 3 months ago

IPC, SLL cases go up in last two years in Andhra Pradesh, says NCRB report

The Hindu  

The total number of cases booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code and Special and Local Laws in the State has shot up over the last two years, the latest National Crime Records Bureau Report -2020 has revealed. Though, under most of the major crime sections, the State has recorded a marginal drop or increase over the previous year, …

Data | Serious offences dip in 2020, COVID violations pushes up crime rate
3 years, 3 months ago

Data | Serious offences dip in 2020, COVID violations pushes up crime rate

The Hindu  

Recorded crimes in India increased by 28% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Click to remove AMP mode Fall in serious crimes While the overall crime incidents increased, the number of violent and serious crimes fell across many crime heads in 2020 compared to 2019. Booked for flouting lockdowns The rise in crimes in …

Second highest chargesheeting rate in State
3 years, 3 months ago

Second highest chargesheeting rate in State

The Hindu  

The State has the second highest chargesheeting rate under the Indian Penal Code as per the Crime in India statistics for 2020 released by the National Crime Records Bureau. Kerala recorded the lowest incidence of murder with 323 victims in 306 incidents, recording a rate of 0.9 compared to the national rate of 2.20, which is calculated per one lakh …

Rape, Murder, Theft Cases Lowest in Uttar Pradesh for the First Times Since 2013, Shows Data
3 years, 3 months ago

Rape, Murder, Theft Cases Lowest in Uttar Pradesh for the First Times Since 2013, Shows Data

News 18  

Uttar Pradesh has seen a consistent drop in cases of rape, murder and theft since 2016, a look at official data shows. In 2020, the state recorded the lowest number of cases in each of these crime heads since 2013. According to the ‘Crime in India’ report, UP recorded 3,779 cases of murder, 2,769 cases of rape and 33,250 cases …

Delhi: Cases of rape and harassment of women have increased; total heinous crimes down
3 years, 5 months ago

Delhi: Cases of rape and harassment of women have increased; total heinous crimes down

India Today  

Cases of rape and harassment of women in the national capital have increased by around 40 per cent in the first five-and-half months this year as compared to the corresponding period last year, while the total number of heinous crimes has gone down marginally, officials said on Tuesday. According to data shared by them, cases of snatching have increased by …

NCRB data spells good news for Andhra Pradesh: 6.5% decline in violent crimes
4 years, 2 months ago

NCRB data spells good news for Andhra Pradesh: 6.5% decline in violent crimes

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPATI: Compared to previous years, Andhra Pradesh appeared slightly safer last year with violent crimes being reported in the state declining to 7,670. The latest National Crime Records Bureau data for 2019 shows a 6.5 per cent decline in overall violent crimes in the state, compared to that of 2018. However, the number of rape cases had seen a marginal …

Delhi accounted for highest number of crimes against foreigners in India in 2019
4 years, 2 months ago

Delhi accounted for highest number of crimes against foreigners in India in 2019

Live Mint  

The highest number of crimes against foreigners in India in 2019 were recorded in Delhi, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, a latest government data showed. A total of 409 cases of crimes against foreigners including rape, murder and theft were lodged in 2019, down from 517 in 2018 and 492 the year before, according to the National Crime Records Bureau …

Delhi Accounted for Highest Number of Crimes Against Foreigners in India in 2019: NCRB Data
4 years, 2 months ago

Delhi Accounted for Highest Number of Crimes Against Foreigners in India in 2019: NCRB Data

News 18  

New Delhi: The highest number of crimes against foreigners in India in 2019 were recorded in Delhi, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, a latest government data showed. A total of 409 cases of crimes against foreigners including rape, murder and theft were lodged in 2019, down from 517 in 2018 and 492 the year before, according to the National Crime …

UP Govt Comes Up With Crime Data of Last 9 Years to Show Drop in Nefarious Activities Amid Oppn Attack
4 years, 4 months ago

UP Govt Comes Up With Crime Data of Last 9 Years to Show Drop in Nefarious Activities Amid Oppn Attack

News 18  

With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly in session and opposition parties planning to corner the government on the law-and-order front, the BJP-led dispensation came out with a comparative data of crime of the last nine years on Thursday and claimed that it was due to its zero-tolerance policy that incidents of crime had come down considerably under the current regime. Compared …

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