-The Indian Express While Uttar Pradesh reported 4,889 murder cases, the national capital reported nearly 40 per cent of rape cases registered among 19 major cities. New Delhi: As per the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau on Thursday, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi have got the dubious distinction of recording the maximum number of murders and rape cases respectively. While Uttar Pradesh reported 4,889 murder cases, the national capital reported...
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Top cop: Numbers high due to free, fair registration of crime -Neeraj Chauhan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The NCRB data projects the national capital as crime hub when compared to 18 other metropolitan cities, however, Delhi police commissioner Amulya Patnaik feels otherwise. Speaking to TOI, Patnaik said, "We have free and fair registration of crime due to which our numbers look so high. Also, over the past two years, we have facilitated online registration of property and motor vehicles-related crime, which form a...
More »Child rapes up 82% in 2016, UP records a 400% jump -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Instances of child rape increased by 82% in 2016 in comparison to the previous year. Uttar Pradesh registered a four-fold increase in such offences with the number of child rapes going up from 596 in 2015 to 2,115 last year, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The report, released Thursday, showed that 19,920 children were raped last year in comparison...
More »Grass or tree?: A rule reclassifying bamboo claims to benefit tribals - but industry will gain more -Nitin Sethi
-Scroll.in At the heART of the problem is a discrepancy between two laws on rights for Adivasis to the bamboo growing on their traditional forestlands. Across the world, taxonomists have classified bamboo as a grass. But under Indian law, it was treated as a tree. This definition has long given state forest depARTments monopolistic control over the valuable natural resource. On November 23, the central government loosened this grip by amending the...
More »NREGA wage payments are being withheld by the Centre, alleges civil society organisations
-Press Note from NREGA Sangharsh Morcha Since the stART of the FY 18, we have pointed out the willful misrepresentation of delays in wage payments, incomplete calculation of the full extent of compensation due to workers and the under provisioning of budgets for the program. In August, we released a report by independent researchers, that used the Ministry of Rural Development’s own data to show how the Central Government is deliberately...
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