Cybercrime NCRB Report
Source: PIB
GS III: Internal Security
Overview
- News in Brief
- Detailed Report
Why in the News?
The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data was released recently.
News in Brief
- The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has released its latest report titled ‘Crime in India.
- It reveals significant trends in crime statistics for the year 2022.
- The key highlights include a notable increase in cybercrimes by 24%, economic offences by 11%, crimes against senior citizens by 9%, and crimes against women by 4%.
Detailed Report
- There is a surge in cybercrimes, with 65,893 cases registered in 2022.
- This percentage reflects a substantial increase of 24.4% compared to the previous year.
- The motive behind 64.8% of these cybercrime cases was fraud (42,710 cases), followed by extortion at 5.5% (3,648 cases) and sexual exploitation at 5.2% (3,434 cases).
Kidnapping
- 1,07,588 cases of kidnapping and abduction were registered in 2022.
- Previous year it was 1,01,707 cases.
Crimes Against Scheduled Castes (SCs): A surge of 13.1% was recorded, with 57,582 cases registered in 2022 compared to 50,900 cases in 2021.
Crimes Against Scheduled Tribes (STs): An increase of 14.3% was noted, with 10,064 cases registered in 2022 compared to 8,802 cases in 2021.
Crimes Against Senior Citizens: A rise of 9.3% was observed, with 28,545 cases registered in 2022 compared to 26,110 cases in the previous year.
Crimes Against Women
- Crimes against women registered a 4% increase in 2022.
- A total of 4,45,256 cases were reported.
- The majority of cases were related to cruelty by husbands or relatives (31.4%).
- It is followed by kidnapping and abduction of women (19.2%), assault on women with the intent to outrage her modesty (18.7%), and rape (7.1%).
Economic Offences
- It shows an uptrend.
- 1,93,385 cases registered in 2022
- 11.1% increase from the previous year.
- These economic offences including forgery, cheating, and fraud (FCF) accounted for the majority, totalling 1,70,901 cases.
- Other categories include criminal breach of trust (21,814 cases) and counterfeiting (670 cases).
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