Himachal Pradesh is the third most unsafe state for senior residents, in accordance with the National Crime Record Bureau’s Crimes in India -2021 report that was launched just lately.

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The charge of crimes towards senior residents, these aged 60 years and above, within the hill state is as excessive as 59.6%, a lot larger than the nationwide common of 25.1%.

The crime charge is the variety of crimes per lakh inhabitants.

Madhya Pradesh tops the chart amongst 28 states with a criminal offense charge of 92.3% towards senior residents, whereas Chhattisgarh occupies the second place at 70%. The Union territory of Delhi recorded the very best crime charge of 101.7 per lakh inhabitants towards aged individuals amongst all states and UTs.

Himachal Pradesh has 7 lakh individuals aged 60 years and above, constituting 10.2% of its complete inhabitants, larger than the nationwide common of 8.6% (Census 2011).

A complete of 419 crimes towards senior residents had been reported in Himachal Pradesh in 2021, a 152% improve since 2019 when solely 166 such crimes had been reported, and 6.3% improve in comparison with 394 in 2020.

Uttarakhand most secure for aged

Neighboring Uttarakhand is the most secure within the class with crime charge as little as 0.8%. Punjab and Haryana have a criminal offense charge of 11.7% and 48.1%, respectively, whereas within the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, together with Ladakh, it was simply 4.4%.

Ten instances of homicide of senior residents have been reported in Himachal Pradesh, two rapes, 4 makes an attempt to homicide, 67 easy harm, 29 grievous harm, 12 instances of assault on ladies with the intention of outraging their modesty (354IPC), 74 instances of prison trespass, 23 of forgery and dishonest, 5 of fraud and 26 instances of prison intimidation.

As many as 341 individuals, together with 263 males and 78 ladies, had been arrested for crimes towards senior residents, whereas 567 (453 males and 114 ladies) had been chargesheeted. Only 4 individuals had been convicted in 2021 with the conviction charge of 5.1%.

Overall crime instances dip by 10%

According to the report, crimes beneath the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Special Acts and Local Laws (SLL) within the state dipped by 10% with 31,874 instances reported in 2021 towards 35,433 in 2020.

The IPC crimes had been down by 11.9% from 14,803 in 2020 to 13,041 in 2021. Violent crimes too got here down by 3%. In 2020, the state reported 1,817, whereas this 12 months the variety of such crimes is 1,762 up to now.

The NCRB’s violent crime class contains homicide, try to homicide, culpable murder, tried culpable murder, dowry deaths, infanticide, foeticide, grievous harm, kidnapping and abduction, rape, try to rape, rioting, theft, dacoity, and arson. The crime charge of violent crimes is 23.8% in Himachal Pradesh with its mid-year mission inhabitants of 74.1 lakh.

The state reported 86 homicide and 69 try to homicide instances in comparison with 91 murders and 70 try to murders.

Crimes towards ladies declined marginally by 0.9%. This 12 months, 1,599 crimes towards ladies had been registered towards 1,614 in 2020. A complete of 358 rape instances had been registered in 2021, involving 360 victims. Last 12 months, 331 instances had been reported involving 330 victims.