Annual Report of Crime in India – 2015

63rd edition of ‘Crime in India – 2015’ report was recently released.

Key facts:

• The National Crime Records Bureau publishes the report on annual basis.
• First edition was published for the year 1953.
• The report contains information on police recorded criminal cases pertaining to the calendar year 2015.
• The data for the publication has been collected from 36 States/UTs and 53 Mega Cities (having population of more than 10 lakhs).

Some of the highlights of the reports include:

• A decrease of 4.7% under crimes against Scheduled Tribes.
• A decrease of 4.4% under crimes against Scheduled castes.
• A decrease of 3.1% under crimes against women.
• 28,69,195 cases under IPC were investigated in 2015. Out of 1,05,02,256 IPC cases, 13,25,989 cases were tried by the courts in 2015, showing conviction rate as 46.9% under IPC crimes.
• Out of 46,46,419 cases, investigation completed in 43,46,003 cases. Cases chargesheet rate was 98.1% and conviction rate was 92.4% under Special & Local Laws (SLL) cases.
• Properties worth Rs. 8,21,040 lakh were stolen during the year 2015 and against this loss, properties worth Rs. 1,35,019 lakh were recovered.
• A total of 73,26,099 offence cases [29,49,400 Indian Penal Code (IPC) cases and 43,76,699 SLL cases] were reported in 2015, an increase of 1.3% over 2014.
• An increase of 5.3% under crimes against children (from 89,423 in 2014 to 94,172 cases in 2015). Kidnapping and abduction constituted 44.5% of total cases of crimes against children.
• Increase of 25.8% under crimes against Human Trafficking (6,877 cases in 2015 compared to 5,466 cases in 2014).