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Crimes against women in Jammu & Kashmir go up by 15.62% in one year; more than 7,000 accused arrested: NCRB

“The conviction rate remained low as only 95 people were awarded sentences, while cases under investigation touched 6,275 by the end of last year, the National Crime Records Bureau said in its latest report.

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

“The maximum cases under the broader ‘offences against the State’ category were lodged in Uttar Pradesh with 1,862 cases in 2021, down from 2,217 in 2020 and 2,107 in 2019,” the report stated.

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India lodged average 86 rapes daily, 49 offences against women per hour in 2021: NCRB data

Among states, Rajasthan (6,337) was on top of the list followed by Madhya Pradesh (2,947), Maharashtra (2,496) and Uttar Pradesh (2,845), while Delhi recorded 1,250 rape cases in 2021.

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Average 82 murders a day, 11 kidnappings, abduction every hour in India in 2021: NCRB data

Murder rate highest in Jharkhand; Delhi tops in kidnapping

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Nearly 60% of fake money seized in 2021 were of ₹2,000 denomination: NCRB

Post-2016, there has been an increase in seizure of fake money, data reveal

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Data | About 50% ‘offences against state’ cases took over a year for police to file charge sheet: NCRB 2021

In 49% of cases registered under ‘Offences against the state,’ police had taken more than a year to submit a chargesheet

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India filed 76 sedition cases last year

Andhra Pradesh registered the highest – 29 of the total 76 – sedition cases filed under IPC section 124A last year, according to the latest NCRB data.

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Data | With just 1 out of 1,000 cases reaching verdicts, cybercriminals targeting kids go scot-free in India

In 2020, 1,102 cases of cybercrimes against children were reported, from only 88 cases in 2017

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Man-animal conflict worsens in Andhra Pradesh, jumbos & bears biggest killers

VISAKHAPATNAM: The NCRB’s ‘Accidental Deaths and Suicides’ data has found that 31 people were killed by animals in Andhra Pradesh in 2018. There were 25 human casualties in 2019 and 32 people were killed by animals in 2020. Further, the state has been recording at least 30 human casualties in…

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Explained | Police encounters in India: cases, convictions and court orders

The debate over India’s police ‘encounters’ has stirred up again as a Supreme Court-appointed Commission concluded that the encounter of Disha gang-rape accused was fake.

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How an incompetent and apathetic ‘system’ denied justice to a child rape victim

This is the second part of the story on the case. Read the first part.

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Unfounded apprehensions about this Act

In the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, data collection does not seem disproportionate with the Act’s objectives

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Jaipur man held for watching child porn on phone

JAIPUR: The city police on Thursday arrested a 30-year-old man from Bhatta Basti and recovered several child pornography clips from his phone. The police have identified the accused as Akram Sheikh.

The Times of India

Over 250 people die due to fire accidents a year in Andhra Pradesh

VISAKHAPATNAM: The fire accident at Porus Laboratories Pvt Ltd, a pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing firm in Akkireddy Gudem village in Musunuru mandal of Eluru district which claimed six lives, has raised concerns over safety in industries in Andhra Pradesh.

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Explained | How does the new Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 propose to collect sensitive data?

What is the legislation about? What are the major changes proposed?

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This is a criminal attack on privacy

The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 erodes the privacy of those convicted of crime and the ordinary citizen

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FIR is a public document, link CBI, NIA, NCB to Central crime data platform: Amit Shah

CCTNS is country’s centralised online database of FIRs, charge sheets and investigation reports

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11 pc jump in cyber crime in 2020, NCRB data in Home Panel report

As per the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data, India reported an 11 per cent jump in cyber crime in 2020.

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Why Delhi’s ‘rape capital’ tag is problematic

In Delhi, from 2017 to March 31, 2018, approximately 3.75 per cent rapes were committed by strangers while almost 96.5 per cent were by persons known to the victim. Which is perhaps why Delhi Police’s Deependra Pathak believes most of the rape cases could not have been prevented by the…

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