-The Hindu What the NCRB can do to present more time-bound and accurate data on crime In The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie wrote: “I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.” It is appropriate to remember this statement when we discuss the crime scene in any part of the world. This is because crime statistics offer...
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Implement Verma report on crimes against women: plea
-The Hindu Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on the petition by a law student The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to respond to a plea filed by a law student seeking the implementation of the Justice J.S. Verma Committee report on crime against women and children. The court issued notices to the government on a plea by B. Srinivas Goud, represented by advocates Ramaswami Balaji and Shravan Kumar, for...
More »With 4,322 Rape cases reported in 2018, 12 Rapes take place daily in UP
-Caravandaily.com/ ANI LUCKNOW – With the high crime rates, 12 Rape cases were reported everyday in Uttar Pradesh recording 4,322 incidents in 2018. According to the annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a case of Rape is registered with the Uttar Pradesh police every two hours while crime against a child is reported every 90 minutes in the state. The state also recorded 59,445 crimes against women with 162 being...
More »Crime records of 2018 show 98.4% of Rapes in Kerala were by men who knew the victims
-TheNewsMinute.com Among the 1972 victims of sexual assault in Kerala in 2018, 1156 are minors, below the age of 18. The total number of crimes against women recorded in Kerala in 2018 is 10461, which is 496 less than the statistics in 2017 but 427 more than in 2016. The data, released by the National Crime Records Bureau, says that Kerala accords for 2.8 per cent of the total number of crimes...
More »No country for procedural justice -Anuj Bhuwania
-The Hindu Due process is widely seen as a hindrance to rough and ready solutions promising substantive justice In early December 2019, the Supreme Court heard a petition on the extrajudicial killing of four men who had been arrested on charges of Rape and murder of a veterinarian near Hyderabad. Following the incident, the Telangana government had assured the courts that it had already initiated an investigation and inquest into the killing....
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