{"id":230062,"date":"2023-12-06T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=230062"},"modified":"2023-12-06T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:34:50","slug":"kolkata-safest-city-in-india-ncrb-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/kolkata-safest-city-in-india-ncrb-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata safest city in India: NCRB report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KOLKATA, 5 Dec:<\/strong> Kolkata emerged as the safest city in India for the third consecutive year, recording the least number of cognisable offences per lakh population among metropolises, a report published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eastern metropolis, which reported 86.5 cases of cognisable offences per lakh people in 2022, was followed by Pune (280.7) and Hyderabad (299.2), the NCRB data stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cognisable crimes are those for which cases are registered under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and SLL (Special and Local Laws).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the NCRB report, Kolkata had registered 103.4 cases of cognisable crimes per lakh people in 2021, which dropped to 86.5 this year. In 2020, the count was 129.5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2021, Pune and Hyderabad had reported 256.8 and 259.9 cognisable offences per lakh population, respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rankings were issued after comparison among 19 cities with over 20 lakh population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kolkata, however, recorded an increase in crimes against women as the number of cases rose from 1,783 in 2021 to 1,890 in 2022, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crime rate against women in Kolkata was at 27.1 per lakh population, greater than Coimbatore&#8217;s 12.9 and Chennai&#8217;s 17.1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, the eastern metropolis also witnessed a drop in violent crimes with only 34 murder cases being reported, down from 45 last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the report, Kolkata registered 11 rapes in 2022, the same number reported in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NCRB report, &#8216;Crime in India 2022&#8217;, is based on data collected from 36 states and union territories and central agencies. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA, 5 Dec: Kolkata emerged as the safest city in India for the third consecutive year, recording the least number of cognisable offences per lakh population among metropolises, a report published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said. The eastern metropolis, which reported 86.5 cases of cognisable offences per lakh people in 2022, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}