As many others mentioned there is no evidence that crime rate of UP is more than Indian average. Chawla feels that the caste colour of these crimes has also deepened. New Delhi: Annual data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for the year 2016 indicated that India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh topped the list during the time, with rising rates of violence such as crime against women and murder. These multi-pronged strategies would involve family, community, educational institutions and the criminal justice system as well. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has earlier promised that his government would control the rising crime graph of the state. The same NCRB data shows that UP has witnessed a 400% rise in cases of child rape in 2016 with the graph only rising the next year. Adityanath’s solution to the swelling violence against women is to talk about a proposal to the Centre to amend the law to make rape against a minor punishable by death. Contrary to popular belief, the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh only had the 16th highest crime rate in the country. Crime graph on the rise in Uttar Pradesh. Despite an increased number of cases, Uttar Pradesh’s vast population – the largest of any other state – kept its crime rate against women relatively low, at 55.4 cases per 100,000 people. New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh topped the crime stats for 2016, accounting for 9.5% of the total crimes committed in the country, showed data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Thursday. Crime graph on the rise in Uttar Pradesh. Cases of dacoity rose from 16 in January to 23 in March and 33 in April. Uttar Pradesh was followed by Madhya Pradesh (8.9%), Maharashtra (8.8%) and Kerala (8.7%). We are witnessing a conspiracy of silence from the prime minister down.”. India crime rate & statistics for 2016 was 3.20, a 5.88% decline from 2015. To compare the national crime figures with the figures from the states, it becomes evident that UP has the dubious distinction of twice the national average in terms of reported cases of rape. Police personnel were attacked and vehicles set on fire. Western Uttar Pradesh, with its high crime rate, is witnessing a hot pursuit of criminals unprecedented in recent times. Had it not been for the intervention of the Supreme Court in response to a plea by young women lawyers, the woman who accused Chinmayanand—who had fled Shahjahanpur and was subsequently found in Dausa in Rajasthan—would have been brought back to Shahjahanpur by UP Police. Loot cases stood at 1,352 till April this year as compared to 992 in 2015 and 1,186 in 2016. Singh said over the phone, “Rape crime was on the rise up to 2017. However, in general UP has many issues in socio-economic indicators and safety indicators. The exact number of rapes in UP have risen from 3,419 in 2016 to 4,246 in 2017. The 'Unemployment Rate in India' database provides estimates of the Unemployment Rate based on a panel size of over 178,000 households. As per crime reports by ncrb.gov.in in last year 2013, 2,621 crime has been reported in Azamgarh.. Azamgarh has lowest crime rate of 56.81 compare to National crime rate 218.67 in 2013.. LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh with 22,256 causalities topped the chart of road accident deaths in the country in 2018. The highest crime rate is in Delhi — 917. Suneeta Diwakar and her family were held at gun-point and intruders decamped with valuables. Delhi's crime rate was 4.1 times higher than the national average of 385.5 that year. The charges were filed in 2011 by a woman who had lived in his ashram for many years. There had been a 20-35 per cent decline in the crime rate in Uttar Pradesh, he added. Kumari says, “Women’s institutions are silent about what is happening in UP. In the Shahjahanpur case, the young woman was produced before the Supreme Court last Friday and has been ordered to stay in Delhi under police security. National Crime Records Bureau (2011) data says, Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of crimes among any state in India, but due to its high population, the actual per capita crime rate is low. LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asserted Tuesday his government has changed the image of Uttar Pradesh and the state's law and order has become a model for the country as not one incident of rioting happened under his watch. He believes that the social fabric of UP has changed vastly from when the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati was in power. ... Rate Card; News. Instances of riots have gone up from 1,608 in 2015 to 2,539 till April this year. Some reasons: 1. On the whole, India recorded an increase of 65% in the number of reported cases of rape, from 22,172 in 2010 to 36,735 in 2014. ... Uttar Pradesh also had the highest number of … While police was busy piecing together the sequence of events of the double murder case, a businessman in Para area of Lucknow as killed. Rashme Sehgal is a freelance journalist. People living in UP would not take this claim at face value. Of the 3.4 lakh crimes against women reported in the country, 56,000 came from Uttar Pradesh. There has been a spurt in crime in Uttar Pradesh in the last couple of months. Uttar Pradesh crime stats: 699 murders in 45 days of Akhilesh Yadav's rule This story is from June 12, 2012 Ashish Tripathi / TNN / Updated: Jun 12, 2012, 18:54 IST She lost her father and two aunts and escaped from the jaws of death. Talking to India today, Additional DGP of the state said that that every effort was on to control the crime graph. A yearly comparison of the crime statistics also shows an upward trend. Rashme Sehgal. As per crime reports by ncrb.gov.in in last year 2013, 807 crime has been reported in Chitrakoot.. Chitrakoot has lowest crime rate of 81.37 compare to National crime rate 218.67 in 2013.. He has accused the woman of being in league with four men to blackmail and extort him. He said that graph was showing an upward trend because Burkina has stopped. Watch: Rare Gangetic dolphin beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh, No breakthrough in fresh round of Centre-farmers' talks, next meeting on January 15, Copyright © 2021 Living Media India Limited. For the third straight year, Uttar Pradesh reported to have the highest number of hate crimes at 57. Although the reports of the police may claim that the percentage of crime has decreased in the last few years or so and CM Yogi Adityanath has also claimed that the Gunda Raj in UP is over. Cases of dacoity, murder and rape have all gone up in recent times. Dr Pulkit Sharma, a psychologist and author who has worked with rape victims, believes that a part of the problem is in how boys are raised in Indian families, “feeling entitled” and therefore not conversant with the word “no” or the notion of consent. Agreed, Chinmayanad is an influential local chieftain, but the prime minister could have used the complaint against him as an opportunity to tick-off UP Chief Minister Adityanath. As per the government data, the state recorded 47 cases of murder with rape and gangrape in 2019, followed by Madhya Pradesh (37), Uttar Pradesh (34), Assam (26), Karnataka (23) and Telangana (20). The Prime Minister needs to ask Chinmayanand why he claimed he was being falsely implicated; a claim that puts him in the same category as Sengar. The best way to combat this is to give children proper education but this woefully hard to find in schools. The Supreme Court has also requested the Allahabad High Court chief justice to constitute a bench to monitor the investigation in the two police cases lodged in this case. Here’s a look at the 2016 crime statistics: There has been a spurt in crime in Uttar Pradesh in the last couple of months. There has been no escalation of rape crimes between 2018-19. The official figures released by the state confirm that there were 3,704 rapes between April 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018, against 2,945 rapes during the corresponding period in 2016-17. However, the state recorded an increase of 121% from 2010 (or 1,563 cases) to 2014 (3,467 cases) over the same period, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Suneeta is still in a state of shock as she recalls her ordeal. The crimes are off the charts, but powers-that-be are too silent. Subscribe to NewsClick's Telegram channel & get Real-Time updates on stories, as they get published on our website. Earlier the women’s movement raised issues that pressured governments to ensure a modicum of justice. Uttar Pradesh holds 19% of total Population of India. The crimes are off the charts, but powers-that-be are too silent. This translates into a crime rate of 53.2 per cent (number of crimes reported/population). Uttar Pradesh lays plan for COVID-19 vaccine dry run on January 5 Uttar Pradesh: 21 dead in roof collapse at Ghaziabad cremation ground MMLH, MMTH to … In 10 months ago, there have been more than 1,100 police encounters in the state. They even took along water bottles with them. Since September 2015, there have been 721 incidents of alleged hate crimes, a vast majority of which have been against Dalits and Muslims, the report said. From 2018, the rate of crime against women has risen by 7.3%, with the country recording an average 87 rape cases every day in 2019. He could have asked Adityanath to explain why the rape and kidnapping case against Chinmayanand was withdrawn in August 2018. Rape rose from 849 in 2015 to 1,030 in 2016 and 1,266 till April this year. Asked about the behaviour of policemen in the field, which often brought a bad name to the department, the DGP said with behavioural training, the situation was changing, except "stray incidents" in which prompt disciplinary action was taken. "The rape cases in Uttar Pradesh are 3,946 and not 4,322. In Chitrakoot,the highest crime is Dacoity where as lowest crime is Theft in 2013. Cops have failed to bring calm to violence-hit Saharanpur despite many arrests. Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be asked what action has been taken against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former minister Swami Chinmayanand, after a 22-year-old law student of Swami Shukhdevanand Law College in Shahjahanpur pleaded on a Facebook post to rein him in. Yogi Adityanath has said several times that criminals would be dealt with severely. Till April this year, instances of dacoity were 91 as compared to 99 in 2015 and 77 in 2016. LUCKNOW: Incidence of major crimes reported in Uttar Pradesh fell to a seven-year low during the seven months ending July, according to data released by the state government, while the number of people booked under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) was the highest in four years. Fresh round of Centre-farmers' talks fail to yield any result, what's next? Uttar Pradesh has seen major reshuffle in police force since Yogi Adityanath took over as the Chief Minister of the state. The family members were tied-up and the dacoits looted cash and valuables. On an average, 60 road crash deaths were recorded in … When the UP Director-General of Police, OP Singh, was asked about the alarming rape graph, he vehemently denied it. The accident’s timing was such that foul play was widely suspected, especially since the police was providing her round-the-clock protection. Instead of clarity on the case and clear-cut legal action, the public has heard Chinmayanand’s attempts to deflect the wave of protests that erupted against him by claiming that a conspiracy was being hatched against him. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday hit back at Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over her tweet on increasing crime rate in the state. The unemployment rate is generated everyday for trailing 30 days. At 112, UP has the lowest crime rate — the number of crimes registered per 100,000 population — in the country for offences covered under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Adityanath, who holds the Home portfolio in the state, conceded as much when he gave a written reply in the Legislative Assembly on March 13, 2019 in which it is stated that there has been a 25% increase in rapes, 40% rise in incidents of ‘outraging modesty’, 35% jump in cases of kidnappings of women and a 50% increase in cases of ‘eve teasing’ between April 1, 2017, and January 31, 2018 as compared to 2016-17, when the previous government headed by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav was in power. “Low tolerance levels and free access to pornography have hastened the crisis,” Sharma says. Every time Uttar Pradesh goes to polls, the ruling party tom-toms the state’s low crime rate during the campaign. For latest updates on nCOVID-19 around the world visit our. Unfortunately, no political party is working to mobilise the average man against this crime, he says. The fate of the 17-year-old girl, who had the gumption to levy a rape charge against sitting Member of Legislative Assembly in UP, Kuldeep Singh Sengar from Unnao, is well known. [Congress party general secretary] Priyanka Gandhi has tweeted in support of the girl student in Shahjahanpur but why are Congress leaders and workers in UP not raising this issue? On the contrary, they have gone down.” He did not quantify this with details of the number of rapes although his claims directly contradict what the chief minister has said in the Assembly on incidence of crimes against women. This is a steep drop from 2015 when the state had an overall crime rate of 1293. Estimations on trailing 30 days data and Monthly data are recorded. The crime rate in Uttar Pradesh increases drastically every year. Uttar Pradesh (UP) recorded the highest number of heinous crimes in 2016, data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) show. Crime rate in UP less than many states: NCRB. The Love Jihad Law is the best example of our institutions destroying truth, leaving the facts redundant and powerless, and creating not just p, Lucknow: The Badaun district located in the western part of Uttar Pradesh is once again in th, The Allahabad High Court, in a significant judgment, has ruled that the requirement to give public notice for marriage under the S. Get the latest reports & analysis with people's perspective on Protests, movements & deep analytical videos, discussions of the current affairs in your Telegram app. But, his warning seems to have gone unheeded. “This combines with the huge misconceptions they have about sexuality, especially female sexuality,” she says. Image Courtesy: Kempton Express. Instead, he felt that the anti-‘Romeo’ squads have proved useful in preventing crimes against women. Standard monthly measures are also generated. But, it is not that only Saharanpur is burning, crime graph is up in several districts including capital Lucknow, where a daring dacoity in posh Gomti Nagar area took place. Fifty incidents were reported in the state in 2017 and 60 incidents in 2016, it said. UP, the country's most populous state, reported the highest number of cases of murder (4,889), accounting for 16.1 per cent of the total such cases in the country, followed by Bihar (2,581 or 8.4 per cent). He indicated that since illegal mining has completely been stopped so the instances of organised crime have shown a downward trend. He said that statistics showed an upward trend in these crimes up to 2017 but subsequently went down, during 2018-19. In Azamgarh,the highest crime is Dacoity where as lowest crime is Theft in 2013. For the last several days Saharanpur is simmering as the rioters run amok vandalising property and indulging in arson. High profiled visits of Director General of Police (DGP) could not bring in calmness even as dozens were rounded up. She was taken in a critical condition to King George’s Medical College in Lucknow and thereafter to AIIMS in Delhi for treatment after she and her lawyer, who remains in a critical condition, met with accident in which their Ambassador car was hit by a truck on the highway. Swami Chinmayanad is the director of Swami Shukhdevananda Law College and was minister of state for internal affairs during the late Atal Bihari Vajpayaee’s term as prime minister. 06 Sep 2019. One reason why dalit women are being targeted is to make members of the dalit community feel powerless and humiliated. 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The number of rape cases actually came down by 7 per cent in 2018, compared to 2017," it said in an official statement. Singh insists that rape and sexual assault are social pathologies that have to be dealt with not merely as crimes—that different methods are needed to tackle such crimes has been corroborated by sociologists and psychologists, he avers. UP CM Yogi Adityanath has said many times that criminals will not be spared. For reprint rights: Syndications Today. This is 6,749 cases more than the number reported in 2016, and 20,103 more than those reported in 2015. Views are personal. Cases of loot rose from 249 in January this year to 421 in March and 412 in April this year. India crime rate & statistics for 2013 was 3.60, a 5.26% decline from 2012. Uttar Pradesh also recorded the highest number of 2,444 dowry deaths in 2018, but witnessed a decrease of 3 per cent in comparison to 2017 when 2,524 cases were reported. Earlier this week, another Lucknow resident Lal Bahadur lost his two daughters, who were murdered in broad daylight while he was away attending his ailing wife in a hospital. The moot point is, will the girl receive justice or will her case also drag on as has happened in the case of the Unnao rape victim and thousands of other rape victims who continue to await justice for years on end? Uttar Pradesh Crime Graph Tells Shocking Take of Apathy. The crime rate in Uttar Pradesh. The obviously terrorised young girl has accused the ‘holy man’ of harassing and threatening to kill her family members. “Upper caste violence against dalit and women from other non-elite castes has grown tremendously,” he says. Uttar Pradesh also continues to top the list of states with maximum communal violence incidents. Evidently, the perpetrators believe that by doing so they are destroying key evidence. Kanpur-based activist Vijay Chawla, however, believes serious crimes such as rape have accelerated because goondas have been given a “free run of the state”. India. Why is BJP Mahila Wing silent on atrocities against women and girl children. advertisement. What allegedly happened to the law student is just a continuation of a rising graph of crimes against women being reported from UP. UP govt has recently released data based on NCRB 2018 report and claimed that Uttar Pradesh has less crime rate than many other states based on its large population. The byelection results of Gorakhpur and Phulpur may not be the only bad news for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. “The crime record trends show that 80% of rapes are directed against women who belong to the lower rungs of the traditional caste hierarchy,” he says. Young boys and juveniles have often told her that they indulge in very violent sexual fantasies. Murder cases stood at 1,364 till April as compared to 1,395 in 2015 and 1,513 in 2016. 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