-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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The Ugly Reality of Caste Violence and Discrimination in Urban India -Ashwini Deshpande
-TheWire.in Data on caste-based violence in metropolitan cities confirms the grim reality that sits at odds with the narrative of an aspiring global superpower. A mention of violence against Dalits on account of their caste readily bring forth images from rural or small-town India; depending on our vintage these could be from late 1970s’ horrific Belchi and Pipra massacres, or of the more recent public flogging of Dalits in Una, Gujarat. We...
More »Crime against Children sees 11% increase in a year: Kidnapping and rape at the top, finds one NGO
-Press release by CRY (Child Rights and You) New Delhi: Crime against Children in India has increased by a sharp 11% between 2015 and 2016, as freshly released NCRB data suggests. Going by absolute numbers, it’s an increase of 12,786 reported crimes against children across the country. The total number of crimes against children reported in 2016 is 106958, while 94172 crimes were recorded in 2015. This however does not come...
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 »Whose development is it anyway? -TK Rajalakshmi and Akshay Deshmane
-Frontline.in The Assembly elections have put under intense scrutiny Narendra Modi’s Gujarat model of development which is touted as worthy of replication throughout the country. Audit reports of the CAG provide ample evidence of it being inefficient, corrupt and not beneficial to the common people. THE standard indicators of development, as is understood in theory and practice, comprise a range of indices, and not necessarily the level of private investment in...
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