Crime Capital
Tuesday, 3rd June, 2008
India the Crime Capital In a report compiled by National Crime Records Bureau and released by Union Home Ministry India has earned the dubious distinction of being a country where maximum murders take place as compared to the other countries of the world. South Africa is at the second place as the murder count is concerned.
Crime Report India’s murder count is three times more than its neighboring country Pakistan and double the figure in the US. However, as compared to the other countries the rate of crimes (per lakh population) is very low. It is three of four percent (per lakh population) which is much less to the occurrence rate of the crimes in South Africa. US tops the list as the number of rape related incidents is concerned .US is followed by South Africa. India is at third place in the category of rape related incidents. Maximum number of robbery related cases were recorded in Japan. This report was based on the data compiled in 22 countries including Australia, Japan, Canada, England, Germany and Sri Lanka and many others.
Reasons of Murders The Delhi Police Spokesman ACP Rajan Bhagat said that crime rate has increased in the capital in 2007 as compared to 2006.
He told that reasons of most of the murders are usually sudden provocation, family disputes, passion and some times other crimes.
Soft Targets Senior Citizens and children are the vulnerable targets. Recently happened incidents, murder of an aged couple in Delhi, Aarushi murder case, are some of the examples that are hitting the headlined of the newspapers all over India. These cases are merely the repetition of the earlier ones that are lying buried under the weight of thousands of such crimes’ related files.
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Tackling the Menace The number of crimes is much high, as in the remote areas such cases of robbery, attempts of molestation if happen, remain unnoticed or are solved by the local social bodies like Panchayats at village level. The whole world is changing and the change is also happening in the world of crime and the nature of the crimes. Criminals every time find new methods and new targets to commit the crime but the reasons behind the crime are the same as were in the old times. To tackle the menace the governments will have to reform the prevalent Police System and will have to make the public more aware to how to avoid such incidents of crime.
