As per the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report on “Crime in India”, there has been a significant increase in the cases of crime against women in Haryana in the past two years.
In 2019, the police lodged 14,683 crime cases against women while this number was 11,370 in 2017. In 2018, as many as 14,326 cases were registered in connection with the crime against women in the State. In 2019, as many as 2803 cases of kidnapping and abduction were registered in Haryana while 1,480 cases were lodged under the charges of rape.
As per the figures, Haryana was ranked seventh in all the States and UTs in the crime of rape after the States of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala and Assam.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan followed by Haryana had the highest gangrape rate cases in the country in 2019, further reveals NCRB reports. The rate has been calculated with the number of crime incidents per lakh women population. Rajasthan reported 902 gangrapes, as registered under the IPC, while Haryana recorded 159 with 2.4 and 1.17 cases per lakh population respectively. In absolute numbers, Haryana is on fourth spot in gangrapes while Rajasthan tops. In 2018, Rajasthan had reported 556 gangrape cases while Haryana had registered 155.
In rapes under all categories, four cases were reported daily in 2019 in Haryana as 1,480 cases were registered with a rise of 14.2 per cent from the previous year. Haryana had 49 cases where repeat offenders were involved, which was also the second highest in the country with Madhya Pradesh recording 52 such cases. According to the data, there were 308 cases of repeated rape on same women in Haryana. In 97 per cent cases, offender was known to the rape victim.
Besides that, 1,117 girl child rape cases were registered under Section 4 and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSOA) with a rise of 9.5 per cent from 2018 in the state.
According to data, there were six cases of murder with rape too, but they are being counted under the head of murder, as the NCRB records the cases with multiple offences under that head which attracts maximum punishment.
There were 14,683 crime incidents against women in Haryana in 2019 which was a rise of 2.5 per cent from 2018.