{"id":202678,"date":"2022-08-30T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=202678"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:37:09","slug":"the-real-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-real-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article <strong>\u201cThe Real Crime\u201d<\/strong> published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on 30<sup>th<\/sup> August 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS 2 Functioning of the Indian Judiciary; Social Justice etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently, the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) released its latest Crime in India report for 2021 which provides the dismal story of justice delivery in India.<\/p>\n<p>From 2020 to 2021, kidnapping and abduction cases increased by 20% and crimes against women, children, and senior citizens increased by 15%, 16%, and 5% respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the issues in India\u2019s criminal justice system?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rise in serious crimes hasn\u2019t been accompanied by proportionate systemic upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly <strong>20% of sanctioned policing posts are vacant<\/strong>, according to the Bureau of Police Research and Development.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>conviction rates are very poor<\/strong> in murder, sexual offenses, rioting, and kidnapping. For example, the conviction rate is just 28% in rape and 42% in murder cases.<\/p>\n<p>There is <strong>high pendency of cases<\/strong> at the level of the judiciary. \u00a0More no. cases come to the court than disposed-off by the courts during the year. For example, violation of Covid-related social distancing norms prompted a deluge of such cases. Courts disposed of 4 lakh cases in 2020 and 2021, but another 5lakh are pending trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should be the course of action?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As per statistical analysis, there is a need for more and better-trained police and judges.<\/p>\n<p>Governments must withdraw all those cases which are not very serious and important at present, like covid-related cases, thousands of cases relating to possession of small amounts of marijuana, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The process of <strong>prosecution<\/strong> and <strong>investigation<\/strong> of offenses should be reformed. Further, the government must undertake efforts like a serious review of criminal codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article \u201cThe Real Crime\u201d published in The Times of India on 30th August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 Functioning of the Indian Judiciary; Social Justice etc. News: Recently, the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) released its latest Crime in India report for 2021 which provides the dismal story of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-real-crime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Real Crime<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-202678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704135075},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}