The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has released the Annual Crime in India Report – 2019.
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- Published
9th Oct, 2020
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- 7% increase in crime against Schedule Castes (SCs) and 26 % increase in Crime against Schedule Tribes (ST) in 2019 as compared to 2018.
- Highest number of crimes against SCs registered in Uttar Pradesh followed by Rajasthan and Bihar.
- Highest number of crimes against STs registered in Madhya Pradesh followed by Rajasthan and Odisha
- Crimes against women registered a 7.3% increase.
Majority of cases under crime against women under IPC were registered under ‘cruelty by husband or his relatives’ (30.9%)
- Highest number of incidents of rape of tribal women registered in Madhya Pradesh.
- Highest number of incidents of rape of SC women registered in Rajasthan followed by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
- Cybercrimes: increased by 63.5 % in 2019. The maximum case registered were of fraud (60.4%), followed by motive of sexual exploitation (5.1%).
- NCRB act as a repository of information on crime and criminals.
- It was recommendation of the Tandon Committee, National Police Commission (1977-1981) and the Task Force of the Ministry of Home Affairs
- It Works under Ministry of Home Affairs.
- NCRB brings out three annual reports i.e. Crime in India, Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India and Prison Statistics India.
