New Delhi: The national capital crime graph went down considerably during the coronavirus-induced lockdown with 50 per cent reduction in crime like murder and loot, interestingly, the crime against women also went down by over 70 per cent, official sources said.
According to the data, the city recorded a sharp decline in crime rate, especially against women from April 1, 2020, to May 15, 2020.
The national lockdown, which came into force on March 25 and went on for the next two months, actually helped the Delhi Police to manage the crime graph of the city well.
It said overall crime came down by at least 50 per cent and incidents of crime against women came down by over 70 per cent. It happened as the general public was not allowed to come out of their houses and the police outnumbered people on the roads during the lockdown.
Last year, Delhi, which has earned a notoriety for itself because of the high rate of crime, was way ahead of every city in the country in crime.
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Data released by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) in 2019, revealed that in terms of overall registration of crime under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) the percentage share of Delhi was over 40 among 19 metros that also include Lucknow, Patna and Kanpur.
The data released last year was for the year 2017. Usually, it takes more than a year to collect and compile the figures from the remotest of places across all the 36 states and Union Territories of India.
In crimes against women, the situation was worse in Delhi when the latest figures were compared with Mumbai or Kolkata. As per NCRB data, 1,168 cases of rape were registered in Delhi in 2017 whereas in Mumbai only 287 cases were reported during the same year. Jaipur (210) takes the third slot while Indore with 206 cases comes at number 4. Kolkata with 15 and Coimbatore with not a single case of rape reported during 2017, seems to be safer cities for women to live.
