The State of Haryana ranks third in the country when it comes to atrocities against women, as per the National Commission for Women (NCW)
The NCW had received 1720 complaints, the third highest number of cases of crime against women from Haryana during the year 2014-15. A majority of 433 complaints from Haryana were of police apathy where victims failed to get their complaints registered. The other cases were of domestic violence/matrimonial dispute, property disputes, rape cases, harassment, dowry sexual harassment at work place.
As per the data with Haryana Police Department, during the four months regime of BJP led State Government in the State, Haryana had registered 2715 cases of crime against women from October 26 to February 28. Of these 917 are cases of rape, molestation, disrobing of women, sexual harassment and stalking.
According to the state Police Department, the state had registered 8430 cases of crime against women in 2013-14 while 7965 cases were registered in 2014-15 (till February). In 2014-15 till February, 967 cases of rape, 245 dowry death, 2999 dowry harassment, 2023 kidnapping, 4 acid attack, 372 sexual harassment, 728 cases of molestation, were registered in the State.