NCRB 2020 data: Delhi shows 24% dip in crimes against women from last year

Though Delhi witnessed 9,782 cases of crimes against women in 2020, it saw a 24% decrease in such crimes compared to 2019, when the numbers stood at 12,902, revealed data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)..Similarly, Mumbai witnessed an almost 30% fall in crimes against women compared to the previous year, when it was 6,519. Kolkata, on the other hand, saw an increase in such crimes from 1,474 to 2,001.Bengaluru also witnessed a drop from 3,486 in 2019 to 2,730 cases. In Lucknow, there was a marginal increase of 8.7% in such crimes in 2020 compared to the previous year.Coimbatore showed only 97 cases pertaining to crimes against women in 2020..Among the states, West Bengal showed a 22% increase in such crimes from 2019. The numbers in the State increased from 29,859 to 36,439. Though Uttar Pradesh witnessed a large number of crimes against women for 2020, it witnessed a drop in such crimes from 59,853 to 49,385 thereby showing a 17% fall in such cases..Overall, the majority of crimes against women were registered under ‘Cruelty by Husband or his Relatives’ (30.2%) followed by ‘Assault on Women with Intent to Outrage her Modesty’ (19.7%), ‘Kidnaping & Abduction of Women’ (19.0%) and ‘Rape’ (7.2%)..Crimes Against Children.In the country, 4,483 children went missing and were deemed to be kidnapped in 2020. In Delhi alone, 1,809 such children were reported to be missing. Among the metros, while Bengaluru had 631 missing children, 622 children fell victim to the crime in Maharashtra.There were also 15,820 child sexual assault victims comprising 15,633 girls and 187 boys in the country in 2020.However, a total of 1,28,531 cases of crime against children were registered during 2020, showing a decrease of 13.2% compared with 2019..Sedition and UAPA crimes.Uttar Pradesh had 2,217 cases that attracted charges including those of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, Sedition and offences under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in 2020. Tamil Nadu saw 668 such cases whereas there were 333 such cases in Assam. The total number of such cases in all states and union territories stood at 5,613, which is about a 27% drop from the previous year’s 7,656 cases.In 2020, there were 73 Sedition cases (Section 124A of Indian Penal Code) among all states and UTs, with Manipur witnessing 15 such cases. Assam had 12 Sedition cases and Uttar Pradesh 7 besides 5 cases in Delhi. Jammu & Kashmir witnessed 287 UAPA cases whereas Manipur had 169 cases and 86 cases in Jharkhand..Atrocities against SC/STs.There were a total of 50,291 crimes against members of the Scheduled Caste (SC) community that took place in 2020. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar witnessed 12,714 and 7,368 such crimes, respectively. Rajasthan saw 7,017 cases and Madhya Pradesh had 6,899 such cases.Data also showed that there were 613 cases of sexual harassment and 221 cases of stalking among SC women in 2020. In addition, there were 336 case of sexual assault on children belonging to these communities.All over India, there were 8,272 cases pertaining to the atrocities committed against Scheduled Tribes (STs) compared to 7,570 cases in 2019, reflecting a 9% increase. In 2020, Kerala had a rate of 26.8% of such crimes taking place whereas Rajasthan had a rate of 20.3%.179 victims from the community were murdered. 903 women and children from the community faced crimes of assault with an intention outrage of modesty and 1,148 women were victims of rape..Cyber Crimes.A total of 50,035 cyber crime cases were registered in 2020, showing an increase of 11.8% compared to the 2019 figures of 44,735 cases. Of the total, 60.2% of the cases registered involved the motive of fraud whereas 3,293 cases were of sexual exploitation and 2,440 were of extortion.While Uttar Pradesh witnessed 11,097 cyber crime cases, Karnataka had 10,741 such cases in 2020. Maharashtra and Telangana showed 5,496 and 5,024 cases, respectively. The year also saw 872 cases of cyber bullying or stalking registered under Section 354D of IPC and 98 cases of data theft.There were 2,160 cases related to ATM frauds whereas 4,047 cases of online banking frauds and 1,093 crimes related to processing of one-time passwords (OTPs) in 2020..[Read the NCRB stats on crimes against women]