2057 foreigners arrested in 2015, 168 in Delhi: NCRB

Bengaluru Police has attributed the rise in crime to better reporting system, according to the New Indian Express.

The “Crime in India” report for 2015 released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Tuesday show that the number of people arrested for student riots (3,600) increased – more than double compared to that in 2014 (1,474). The data reveals that Maharashtra has 32 of the 126 minors booked for sodomy, the highest number across the country. Its share in the total number of cases reported has fallen from 14% last year to 8% this year.

Of the 251 cases of honour killings, 192 were charged under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code, while 59 were charged under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder). The state as whole is ranked eighth when it comes to murders with 1557 reported past year. Much of these incidents occurred in Uttar Pradesh.

The number of people arrested increased from 3,540 to 10,353.

Delhi also reported 6,630 cases of abduction cases, while Mumbai had 1,583. Among cities, Delhi remains the most unsafe city, with a crime rate that’s well above the national average. The NCRB puts the city at 12th place where custodial and non-custodial rapes are concerned as well as in gang rapes and rape attempts.

While Karnataka and Puducherry found space in the ignominious list in 2014, this year they are out of the list.

This year, NCRB has added another important filter to the data its collected on rape – the relationship of the victim to the accused.

Bengaluru also tops in the number of cases registered under the Dowry Prohibition Act. Delhi had the highest murder cases at 464, while Patna had 232.

Since the past five years the number of rapes committed by minors in Maharashtra has been on the rise and second to Madhya Pradesh. Karnataka came next with 1, 414. This as forgery cases had significantly increased among States with 13,354 cases registered in 2015 as against 10,859 cases in 2014.

UP tops list with 35,527 cases reported, WB follows closely behind with 33,218 such cases.

For the past three years, Maharashtra has been recording the highest number of murders, rioting and robbery by juveniles.

Infamous as the “rape capital”, Delhi is now also the “stalking capital” as the number of stalking cases doubled a year ago – from 541 in 2014 to 1,124 in 2015.

The city had more thefts than Mumbai previous year. The two were beaten by Delhi, which reported 96,924 thefts. In addition, a total of 30 cases of sedition were recorded from across the country with as many as nine being reported from Bihar. Sikkim had only 53 cases, followed by Nagaland (90), Mizoram (158), Manipur (266), and Meghalaya (334).

As many as 6,189 of the total complaints lodged against police personnel in Madhya Pradesh were found false or unsubstantiated.

Social activists however, beg to differ.