It was reported on September 30, 2020 that the latest government data shows that Delhi recorded the highest number of crimes against foreigners in 2019 at 30.1 per cent, followed by Maharashtra at 11.7 per cent, and Karnataka at 11.2 per cent.
According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Union Home Ministry, some 409 crime cases against foreigners were lodged in 2019, including rape, murder, and theft, compared to 517 and 492 in 2018 and 2017 respectively. In Delhi alone, 123 cases were registered, whereas in Maharashtra and Karnataka, the number of cases were 48 and 46 respectively. As for other states like Tamil Nadu, the percentage of cases was 5.6; for Goa and Uttar Pradesh both, 5.1; for Haryana, 4.6; for Rajasthan, 3.9; for Kerala and Assam both, 3.7; and for Madhya Pradesh, 3.2.
Category-wise, the maximum cases were for theft (142); 54 were registered as ‘other Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes’; 41 under cheating; 26 under assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty; and 14 under simple hurt. Similarly, there were 13 cases under murder; 12 under rape; 5 under kidnappings; and 15 cases under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. A marginal decline in murder cases was recorded with an average of 79 murder cases daily in 2019. A total of 28,918 cases of murder were registered in 2019, which is a marginal decline of 0.3 per cent over 2018 with 29,017 cases.
NCRB was set up in 1986 as a repository of information on crime and criminals to assist the investigators in linking crime as defined by the Indian Penal Code and special and local laws in the country to the perpetrators on the basis of the recommendations of the Tandon Committee, National Police Commission (1977-1981) and the MHA’s Task Force (1985). The bureau was entrusted with the responsibility for monitoring, coordinating, and implementing the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) project in the year 2009. So far, the project has connected over 15000 police stations and 6000 higher offices of police across the country.
The bureau is a national repository of all fingerprints in the country and has more than one million ten-digit finger prints database of criminals both convicted and arrested, which provides for search facility on fingerprint analysis and criminal tracing system (FACTS). It also assists various states in capacity building in the area of information technology (IT), CCTNS, Finger Prints, Network security, and Digital Forensics through its training centres in Delhi and Kolkata. The bureau has its office complex at Mahipalpur.
Courtesy: India Today, ncrb.gov