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NCRB Data for 2023 Shows Crime Up 7.2% as Cyber Offences Surge, Murders Edge Down

Fraud‑heavy cybercrime alongside higher SLL registrations powered the increase.

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 logged 62,41,569 cognizable cases in 2023, up 7.2% year on year, with 37.63 lakh under the IPC and 24.78 lakh under Special and Local Laws as the overall crime rate rose to 448.3 per lakh.
  • Cybercrime jumped 31.2% to 86,420 cases, with fraud accounting for 68.9% (59,526) of incidents while the cybercrime rate increased from 4.8 to 6.2 per lakh.
  • Murder cases fell 2.8% to 27,721 as key bodily offences eased, crimes against women were broadly flat at 4,48,211, and crimes against children rose 9.2% to 1,77,335 with large POCSO caseloads.
  • Crimes against Scheduled Tribes rose 28.8% to 12,960, with Manipur reporting 3,399 cases, while Motor Vehicle Act violations roughly doubled from 94,450 to 1,91,828, contributing to SLL growth of 9.5%.
  • Among 19 metropolitan cities, Delhi recorded the most IPC cases and led metro counts for rape (1,088) and crimes by juveniles (2,278), with thefts dominating city‑level offence profiles.