National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) published
the annual Crime in India Report 2018.
§ NCRB has also released Accidental
Death and Suicides in India 2018 report which outlines death and
suicide statistics of the country.
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The report shows an increase of 1.3% in the registration of cases.
§ The crime rate per one lakh population has
come down from 388.6 in 2017 to 383.5.
o Crime against Women: The rise has been
observed in 2018 compared to 2017.
o UttharPradesh topped the list followed by Maharashtra
and West Bengal.
o Cruelty by husband or his relatives (31.9%)
followed by an assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty (27.6%)
constituted the major share of crimes against women.
§ Suicides:
The total number of people who committed suicide in 2018
has increased from 2017.
o The highest number of suicide
victims were daily wage earners comprising 22.4% of
such deaths.
o Maximum of the suicides were reported from Maharashtra followed
by Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka.
o Farm sector workers accounted for 7.7
% of the total number of suicides in the country.
o West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Uttarakhand,
Meghalaya, Goa, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu, Delhi, Lakshadweep and
Puducherry reported zero suicides by farmers/cultivators and
agricultural labourers.
§ Economic Offences: It includes criminal breach of trust,
forgery, cheating, fraud and counterfeiting, etc. Higher economic
offences were observed in 2018 as compared to 2017.
o Uttar Pradesh accounted for the maximum number of
economic offences followed by Telangana and Bihar.
§ SC/ST related crimes: The incidents registered under the
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes related Acts observed a decline in
2018 from 2017
National Crime Record Bureau
NCRB, was set – up in 1986 under Ministry of Home
Affairs to function as a repository of information on crime and criminals so
as to assist the investigators in linking crime to the perpetrators.
It was set up based on the recommendations of the National Police
Commission (1977-1981) and the MHA’s Taskforce (1985)
Head Quarter : Delhi
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Source : https://ncrb.gov.in/
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