609 cases in 2020, involving 619 victims compared to 598 in 2019Hry has highest abetment to suicide cases

Bhartesh Singh Thakur

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 15

Despite 2020 being hit by Covid and subsequent lockdowns, there was no let up in crime in Haryana when compared to 2019.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report for 2020 released today, the state recorded the highest abetment to suicide cases and Dalit murders, and second-highest rate of dowry deaths.

The crime rate is cases per lakh population.

There were 609 abetment to suicide cases in 2020, involving 619 victims with a crime rate of 2.1. In 2019, there were 598, involving 663 victims.

In crimes against the Scheduled Castes, there was a jump of 11.4 per cent as 1,210 cases were registered. It included 57 murders of Dalits, with a rate of 1.1 cases per lakh SC population. There were 195 rapes of Dalit girls and women in the state. The conviction rate was just 12.5 per cent in crimes against the Dalits.

In 2020, there were 251 incidents of dowry deaths in the state with a crime rate of 1.8 cases per lakh women population. There were 248 dowry deaths in Haryana in 2019.

Cases involving making physical contact, demand for sexual favours, showing pornography to women and making sexually-coloured remarks, Haryana was second in the country with 890 cases. However, in 2019, it was the worst state on the crime rate of such cases with 916 FIRs.

The state recorded 1,373 rape FIRs in 2020, with close to four cases per day. Also, there were 452 incidents of repeated rapes. However, there was a dip of 7.2 per cent from 2019 in rape FIRs.

When it comes to gangrapes, a total of 169 incidents were reported, which was the third-highest in the country. The state had recorded 159 gangrapes in 2019.

Overall, there was a dip in crime against women by 11.5 per cent in 2020 as 13,000 cases were registered while a dip of 15.3 per cent was observed in crime against children.

The state recorded 1,143 cases of murders involving 1,165 victims at a crime rate of 3.9, which was the second-highest in the country after Jharkhand (4.2). It implied more than three murder cases were registered in the state per day. There were 1,137 murder cases in 2019.

Haryana recorded a total of 1.92 lakh cases in 2020 under the IPC and Special Local Laws (SLL), which was a rise of 15.7 per cent from 2019. The crime rate of 658.6 cases per lakh population was the fifth highest in the country in 2020.

The chargesheeting rate, which has been introduced for the first time, at 39.7 was the fourth-worst in the country. The state witnessed 51 communal riots in 2020, which was the third-highest.