The over-all reported crime rate in Delhi has seen a decrease in the first six-months of this year as compared to early half of last year. Data collected by the Delhi Police from January 1 to June 30 of this year shows that compared to early half of last year; there is a decrease in crime by 6.2 per cent this year. However, reports of crime against women have seen a slight increase by around 1.6% in Delhi.
With 1,369 reported cases of cruelty by husband and in-laws compared to 1,275 reported in early half of last year and 79 dowry deaths this year than the reported 65 last year, the reported cases of atrocities on married women have seen an increase.
There has been a slight decrease in kidnapping of women from 1,836 reported cases to 1,854 last year and also in cases of assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty, which saw a decrease by 35 cases.
On the other hand, rape cases reported in the early half of this year saw a slight increase of 43 cases more than 1,044 reported last year. In total 6,518 cases of crime against women were reported compared to 6,414 last year.
Cases of robbery, snatching, burglary, street crime and house theft saw an impressive decrease with 1,317 cases of robbery compared to 1,524 last year, 3,237 snatching cases to 4,553 last year, 2,175 burglary to 6,667 reported last year, 4,563 cases of street crime to 6,100 reported last year and 2,088 house theft cases to 7,105 reported at the early half of last year.
Moreover, according to spokesperson of Delhi Police, the crime detection percentage has increased to 85 per cent from 75 per cent last year. There has been a monumental increase in vehicle theft with 21,298 cases reported compared to 19,655 last year. Cases of theft have also increased by 3,005 more reported cases compared to last year.
Over-all however, there has been significant decrease in reported heinous crimes with 2,955 reported in the early half of this year compared to 3180 heinous crimes reported last year.
The total reported cases of non-heinous crimes have also seen an impressive decrease from 1,10,563 this year to 1,17,844 last year.