The percentage of cases of acid attacks that the courts disposed, of all the cases that went for trial, was 6.6 percent in the year 2016 and 9.9 percent in 2017. But, in 2018, it again came down to 6.11 percent cases.

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi and Bihar accounted for 51 per cent of all crimes committed against children in 2018.

Another staggering stats revealed by NCRB was that 23 States and UTs in India have no women jails at all. So, for these areas, women are put into regular jails, owing to the non-availability of women-only jails.

Recently, a woman was abducted by three men in a car in Gurgaon and was raped while driving from Gurgaon to Delhi to Noida. Such crimes against women has become a common occurrence in the capital city and its nearby regions. The new National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report of 2017 claims that cases of kidnapping […]