Crime in India 2022: Volume III

The three-volume report Crime in India 2022 was published by the National Crime Records Bureau, an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India on December 2023. Set up in 1986, the NCRB functions as a national repository of crime data, meant to provide information-technology support to the Indian Police. This is the 70th edition of Crime in India report, the first of which was published in the year 1953.The crime statistics are based on crimes recorded and reviewed by police agencies at different levels across 36 states and union territories during the year 2022. This data was compiled and verified by the NCRB between January and June 2023, and the report was then made available on the Bureau’s official website. It also contains statistics on 19 metropolitan cities with a population of two million or more according to Census 2011 – including Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore and Delhi.In the preface, the report lists a few of its own limitations. Firstly, the statistics in the report follow the Principal Offense Rule – which means that for any criminal incident comprising multiple offenses, only the crime with the highest penalty has been recorded. Further, the overall statistics have not been weighted for the gravity of crimes. Thus, comparative judgements on the severity of crime in different regions should not be made solely on the basis of the report’s numbers...