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India’s 2023 Crime Report: Overall Cases Rise, Murders Dip as Cybercrime Surges

The report points to cyber fraud concentration plus urban-state spikes as key pressures on policing.

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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

  • India registered 62,41,569 cognizable cases in 2023, up 7.2% from 2022, with the national crime rate rising to 448.3 per lakh from 422.2.
  • Murder cases declined 2.8% to 27,721, with disputes the most common motive, followed by personal vendetta and gain.
  • Cybercrime climbed 31.2% to 86,420 cases, about 69% tied to fraud, with heavy loads in states such as Karnataka and Telangana and modest chargesheeting in several high-burden jurisdictions.
  • Crimes against Scheduled Tribes rose 28.8% to 12,960 and crimes against children increased 9.2% to 1,77,335, while crimes against women ticked up marginally to about 4.48 lakh.
  • Geographic hotspots shaped the picture as Delhi led metros with roughly 3.23 lakh IPC cases and a crime rate near 1,983 per lakh, and Manipur’s IPC cases jumped over sixfold to 19,192; crime rates are calculated using 2011 Census populations.