Data: The number of registered Cyber-crimes cross 50,000 in 2020. 20% of these are Fraud cases
As expected, the pandemic-induced lockdowns resulted in increased internet usage which meant that the quantum…
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Data: While the number of ‘Crimes against Women’ decrease, cyber crimes against women increase by 44% in 2020
The number of registered instances of ‘Crime against Women’ decreased in 2020. A similar trend…
Data: Registered crimes increased by 28% in the lockdown year 2020 but there is a catch
The NCRB recently released the ‘Crime in India (CII) – 2020’ report. The data indicates…
What is new with the NCRB’s ‘Crime in India – 2020’ report?
The NCRB recently released its 2020 edition of the annual ‘Crime in India’ report, which…
Supreme Court issues important directions regarding pending Criminal Cases against sitting MPs & MLAs
The Supreme Court recently penalized eight political parties including the BJP & Congress for flouting…
Data: Number of Complaints with NHRC down by almost 40% in six years
Data shared by the government indicates that the number of complaints regarding human rights violations…
Nirbhaya Fund – Low Utilization of Funds is a common feature across various Schemes
As observed in an earlier story, only about 62% of the funds released under the…
Data: About 62% of the funds released under the ‘Nirbhaya Fund’ utilized so far
The Nirbhaya Fund was set up in response to the 2012 gruesome gangrape in Delhi…
Decadal Review: Cyber-Crimes increased 30-fold between 2010 & 2019
In this story of the decadal review, we look at cyber-crimes and suicides due to…
Decadal Review (2010-2019): Crime Rate increases both in the case of Crimes against Women & SCs
2020 marked the end of a decade. We review various indicators through this decade in…
