Crimes against women, children, senior citizens, marginalised groups on the rise in 2022: NCRB report
Delhi logged 14,158 cases of crime against women, the highest among all metros.
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Delhi logged 14,158 cases of crime against women, the highest among all metros.
In 2022, 22,63,567 cases of Special and Local Law (SLL) crimes were registered across the country leading to 21,61,911 arrests.
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In 2020, the figure was pegged at 9,782, the highest among other metropolitan cities that year.
A total of 28,522 FIRs of murder were registered in 2022 an average of 78 killings every day or more than three every hour across India, down from 29,272 in 2021 and 29,193 in 2020, according to the latest NCRB data.