National Crime Records Bureau

The growing crimes against the community, low conviction rates, and a sense of disenchantment with NDA may all be contributing to Dalit anger

Child abductions, which accounted for a small share of abductions earlier, now account for the bulk of all abductions in the country

The clarification by UIDAI comes after the chief of the NCRB, Ish Kumar, suggested that limited access to Aadhaar data for police will help to identify first-time offenders

Instances of sexual violence in India seem to be on a decline even though only a fraction of them is actually reported to the police

Govt says 47,338 cases of crime against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were registered in 2016. Of these, charge-sheets were filed in 78.3% cases, and the conviction rate was 25.8%

As many as 33,531 cases of cyber attacks were registered in the country in last three years, the Rajya Sabha was informed Wednesday

The lack of adequate policemen and judges seems to have slowed down India's criminal justice system

The reported rate of riots and civil disturbances has declined marginally over the past few years but so has the rate of convictions

In other news, 86,265 case of crime against public order recorded in 2015, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data

Of the total 12,602 farm sector suicides in 2015, 8,007 were farmers while 4,595 were agricultural labourers