{"id":272426,"date":"2023-12-05T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T14:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=272426"},"modified":"2023-12-05T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T14:56:12","slug":"ncrb-report-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ncrb-report-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"NCRB Report 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source-<\/strong> This post is based on the article “One-third of all 2022 suicides were of daily wage earners, farmers, says NCRB report<\/strong>” published in “The Hindu<\/strong>” on 4th December 2023<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Recently, NCRB has released the annual Crime in India report and the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India (ADSI) report for 2022.<\/p>\n

What are the Major Findings of the Crime in India report?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Increase in Cyber Crimes
\n<\/strong>1) It indicated a 24% surge<\/strong> in cyber crimes across India compared to 2021.<\/p>\n

2) Bengaluru ranked the highest<\/strong> in cyber crimes. OTP and online bank frauds were the most common cybercrimes reported in the city<\/p>\n

3) Cybercrime cases in Delhi almost tripled in 2022<\/strong> . Most of the crimes related to offences such as publication and transmission of content depicting children in sexually explicit acts in electronic form.<\/p>\n

Increase in crimes against SC and ST
\n<\/strong>1) It showed overall increase in crimes and atrocities committed upon Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)<\/p>\n

2) Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan<\/strong> continued to figure at the top with the highest incidents of crimes and atrocities committed upon SCs and STs.<\/p>\n

3) Mizoram<\/strong>, which had reported no cases of atrocities against either SCs or STs in 2021, reported 34 cases of atrocities in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Increase in UAPA cases
\n<\/strong>1) A 25% increase in cases registered under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) suggests increase in offences against the State.<\/p>\n

2) It also shows dip in sedition cases after Supreme Court 2022 Judgement to keep sedition cases in abeyance.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fake currency notes crimes
\n<\/strong>Government authorities seized counterfeit Indian currency notes worth over \u20b9342 crore in 2022, most of which are Rs.2000 currency notes, followed by Rs.500 notes.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

What are the Major Findings of the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Increase in suicide rate<\/strong>
\n1) India reported a total of over 1.7 lakh suicides in 2022, nearly one-third of whom were daily wage earners, agricultural labourers, and farmers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) The maximum suicides in the year were reported from Maharashtra<\/strong> (22,746), Tamil Nadu (19,834), Madhya Pradesh (15,386), Karnataka (13,606), Kerala (10,162), and Telangana (9,980).<\/p>\n

Common causes of suicides<\/strong>–<\/p>\n

The report pointed out that the most common causes for suicides reported in 2022 were \u201cfamily problems\u201d and \u201cillness<\/strong>\u201d, which together accounted for almost half of all suicides in the year. This was followed by drug abuse, alcohol addiction, marriage related issues.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus- Reports & Indices<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source- This post is based on the article “One-third of all 2022 suicides were of daily wage earners, farmers, says NCRB report” published in “The Hindu” on 4th December 2023 Why in the News? Recently, NCRB has released the annual Crime in India report and the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India (ADSI) report for… Continue reading NCRB Report 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,1],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-272426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":31,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701811678},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272426","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\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}