The uproar over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital continues. The main accused Sanjay Roy is in CBI custody. There is a demand for hanging him.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal government has passed a new bill in the assembly with the aim of hanging rapists. This bill, named ‘Aparajita Bill’, amends three central laws so that trials in rape and gangrape cases can be completed as soon as possible and the culprit can be punished.
While presenting the anti-rape bill on Tuesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee fiercely targeted the central government. She also said that the central government itself has declared Kolkata as the safest city, but now the BJP is raising slogans of RG tax, demanding justice for RG tax.
During this, Mamata Banerjee cited the figures of NCRB. NCRB is a central government agency, which releases a report on crime figures every year. Mamata Banerjee said that the central government itself says that Kolkata is the safest city in India.
Is Kolkata really the safest city?
According to the data of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Kolkata has remained the safest metro city for three consecutive years.
NCRB releases crime statistics of 19 metro cities every year. These include Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune and Surat.
According to the report, more than 8.53 lakh criminal cases were registered in these 19 metro cities in 2022. These were cognizable crimes. That is, crimes in which the police can arrest even without a warrant. In 2022, there was a reduction of more than 10% in these crimes as compared to 2021.
Of all the cases registered in 2022, less than one and a half percent i.e. 12,213 cases were registered in Kolkata. Whereas, the maximum number of 3.18 lakh cases were registered in Delhi.
Kolkata had the lowest crime rate per lakh population. Here 86.5 cases were registered per lakh population. In 2021 it was 103.4 and in 2020 it was 129.5. Delhi had the highest crime rate of 1952.5 per lakh population. After this, Kochi had 1358.2 and Indore had 1251.8.
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Is Kolkata equally safe for women?
NCRB data shows that 48,755 cases of crimes against women were registered in 19 metro cities in 2022. This figure was 12.3 percent higher than in 2021.
However, crime cases against women have increased in Kolkata. In 2021, 1,783 cases of crime against women were registered in Kolkata, which increased to 1,890 in 2022. The crime rate of crimes against women in Kolkata is 27.8 per one lakh population. Whereas, in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu it is 12.9 and in Chennai it is 17.1.
Delhi ranks first and Mumbai ranks second in crimes against women. In 2022, 14,158 cases of crime against women were registered in Delhi and 6,176 in Mumbai.
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However, Kolkata is the second metro city with the lowest number of rape cases. In 2022, 7 cases of rape were registered in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. That year, 11 cases of rape were reported in Kolkata.
In the three years between 2020 and 2022, 9,374 cases of rape have been registered in these 19 metro cities. Of these, 33 cases have been registered in Kolkata. In all three years, 11 cases of rape were registered in Kolkata.
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What are the statistics on West Bengal?
– Criminal Cases: According to the NCRB report, 58.24 lakh cases were registered across the country in 2022. Of these, 3% i.e. 1.80 lakh cases were registered in West Bengal.
– crime against women More than 4.45 lakh cases of crimes against women were reported across the country in 2022. Of these, about 8% i.e. 34,738 cases were from West Bengal.
– Rape case: In 2022, 31,516 cases of rape were registered in all the states of the country. Of these, 3.5% i.e. 1,111 cases were registered in West Bengal. The highest number of rape cases, 5,399, were reported in Rajasthan.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)