-TheWire.in While the NCRB data have shown a substantial rise in crimes against women, activists say there has been an increase in reporting rather than the rate of crime. As many as 39 crimes against women were reported every hour in India, up from 21 in 2007, according to Crime in India 2016 report by NCRB. The rate of crime against women – crimes per 100,000 female population – was 55.2 in 2016,...
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Information at the court's discretion -Aniket Aga
-The Hindu The judiciary’s brazen disregard for the RTI has now got a stamp of approval from a high court A six-year-long farce concluded at the Delhi High Court on November 21, 2017, and the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 is the worse for it. At issue was the right of citizens to get information from the Supreme Court , and by implication, India’s higher judiciary, which has strongly resisted the...
More »Too few FIRs in Delhi & Gujarat for fake currency notes seized during 2016, indicates NCRB data
In a country where inter-departmental coordination hardly takes place in the government, a joint exercise undertaken by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is bearing fruits. The NCRB has started coordinating with the RBI for collection and sharing of Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) data. The new tables, which have been introduced in the NCRB's annual publication on crime, reveal that although the...
More »RTI Response Raises Serious Questions About Security, Handling of EVMs -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Discrepancies between Election Commission and Electronics Corporation of India Limited data on number of ballot units and control units manufactured have also been revealed. New Delhi: The response by the Election Commission (EC) and two electronic voting machine (EVM) manufacturers – Electronics Corporation of India Limited and Bharat Electronics Limited – to an Right to Information (RTI) query relating to a petition filed following the Uttarakhand polls has revealed administrative and...
More »Of crime and punishment -Mukul Sanwal
-The Hindu Low conviction rates and a lack of a lawful definition of crime mark criminal administration in India Police reform in India has been concerned with political interference ever since the landmark Supreme Court judgement, in 2006, on the subject. The focus should really be on reorganising criminal administration. The annual publication of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), “Crime in India 2016”, which was released recently, presents a dismal picture of...
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