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India’s 2023 Crime Cases Rise 7.2% as Cyber Offences Soar and Homicides Dip

Expanded e-FIR access helped push up registrations, with cyber-fraud emerging as the biggest driver.

File photo of officials of Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), National Crime Records Bureau and Manipur Home Department and Manipur Home Department collecting biometrics of illegal immigrants from Myanmar in view of the ethnic violence in the state, at the Foreigners Detention Centre, at Sajiwa, in Imphal East on Monday. (ANI Photo)
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Overview

  • Cybercrime jumped 31.2% to 86,420 cases, with fraud accounting for 68.9% of incidents and the cybercrime rate rising from 4.8 to 6.2 per lakh.
  • Crimes against children increased 9.2% to 177,335 cases, led by kidnapping and abduction (79,884) and POCSO offences (67,694).
  • Crimes against Scheduled Tribes surged 28.8% to 12,960 cases, with Manipur recording 3,399 and the category’s crime rate climbing to 12.4 per lakh.
  • Metropolitan crime rose 10.6%; Delhi reported the highest IPC load at 323,000 cases, the top IPC crime rate among metros, and the lowest chargesheeting rate.
  • Thefts grew from 652,731 to 689,580, obstruction-on-public-way cases rose sharply, and Motor Vehicle Act violations nearly doubled under SLL, driving the overall increase.