As many as 463 rape cases have been registered at various police stations in Delhi in the first four-and-a-half months of 2013, indicating an increase of 158 per cent over the same period last year. The data was released by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar at a Press conference on Monday. There has been six fold increase in the molestation cases while number of harassment cases has increased by significantly eight times almost.
last year, as many as 179 rapes, 139 molestations and 49 cases of harassment were registered till April 15. Kumar contended that rapes are “opportunist crimes” in which maximum perpetrators were people known to the victim.
“97 per cent cases happened within the house while in only three per cent of cases, the involvement of strangers have been found, including the December 16 gang-rape,” he said. “It is not possible to prevent rapes, if a neighbour or person known to the victim is involved in the crime,” he added.
Delhi Police figures said that friends/lovers were involved in 178 of the recorded rape cases, neighbours in 115, employers in 15, fathers in 10, ex-husbands in 9, father-in-laws in 2, step-fathers in 2, cousins in 5, tenants in 3, instructors in 3, doctors in 2 and occult practitioner in one. SR