Cases of crime against women have spiked with an increase of 4 per cent seen in States and Union territories while an increase of 12.3 percent was recorded in 19 Metro cities in 2022 over the preceeding year.
In the 19 Metropolitan cities with population above two million (Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune and Surat) a total of 48,755 cases of crime against women were registered during 2022, showing an increase of 12.3 per cent over 2021 (43,414 cases).
The majority of cases under crime against women were registered under ‘Cruelty by Husband or his Relatives’ (32.6 per cent) followed by ‘Kidnaping and Abduction of Women’ (19.4per cent), ‘Assault on Women with Intent to Outrage her Modesty’ (17.9 per cent), and ‘Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012’ (13.2 per cent).
The total number of cognisable offences registered under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) were 620,356 and those under Special & Local Laws (SLL) were 233,114, totaling to 853,470 cognizable offences in the 19 metropolitan cities of the country which have a population of over two million, data shows. This was a fall of 10.4% over 2021 when a total of 952,273 cognisable offences were registered.
Violent crimes, which consist of murders, grievous assault, rapes and molestations, have gone up from the previous year, as per the data released on Sunday. In some of these categories, Mumbai recorded the highest number of cases registered among metros in 2022, while many others was a close second.
The total number of crimes registered under IPC in the financial capital have increased from 50,158 in 2020 to 63,689 in 2021 and to 69,289 in 2022.
Via:NCRB