{"id":73212,"date":"2026-05-07T18:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=73212"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:09:31","slug":"ncrb-crime-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/07-05-2026\/ncrb-crime-report","title":{"rendered":"NCRB releases \u2018Crime in India 2024\u2019 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>According to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), <strong>13,396 cases were registered under crimes against women and 7,662 under crimes against children in 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Major Findings&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The overall crime rate in India <strong>declined by 6% in 2024 <\/strong>compared with 2023 but there was an increase of over<strong> 17% in cybercrime cases.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Crimes Against Women: <\/strong>Declined 1.5%, with a rate of 64.6 per lakh population, down from 66.2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"d0e0ec\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-57.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-73215\" style=\"--dominant-color: #d0e0ec; width:436px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-57.png 640w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-57-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Deaths due to drug overdose saw a 50% increase in 2024<\/strong> compared with the previous year, with Tamil Nadu recording most fatalities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Crimes Against Children:<\/strong> Increased by 5.9%, dominated by kidnapping (40%) and sexual offences (36.9%).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Economic Offences<\/strong> also showed an increase of 4.6%, with over 2.14 lakh cases registered in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Metropolitan Crime Data: Delhi <\/strong>recorded the <strong>highest number of crimes against women and senior citizens<\/strong> among India&#8217;s 19 Metro cities in 2024.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Capital additionally topped the country in theft cases,<\/strong> accounting for nearly 30% of all such offences nationally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"dad9da\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-58.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-73214\" style=\"--dominant-color: #dad9da; width:425px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-58.png 590w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-58-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebecf0\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><strong>National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is a government agency responsible for<strong> collecting, analyzing, and publishing crime and criminal data in the country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was established in <strong>1986 <\/strong>on the recommendation of the<strong> Task Force of the National Police Commission (1977\u20131981)<\/strong> and the MHA Group of Experts on Crime Records (1985).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It functions under the<strong> Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Important NCRB Reports:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Crime in India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accidental Deaths &amp; Suicides in India (ADSI).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prison Statistics India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Specialized Tools:<\/strong> CyTrain (training portal for cybercrime investigation); Cri-MAC (Crime Multi-Agency Centre- facilitates inter-agency coordination).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/rise-in-cybercrime-but-overall-crime-rate-dropped-in-2024-says-latest-ncrb-report\/article70948292.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\"> According to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 13,396 cases were registered under crimes against women and 7,662 under crimes against children in 2024. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong> Major Findings\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\"> The overall crime rate in India declined by 6% in 2024 compared with 2023 but there was an increase of over 17% in cybercrime cases. <\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\"> Crimes Against Women: Declined 1.5%, with a rate of 64.6 per lakh population, down from 66.2. <\/li>\n<p><a href=\" https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/07-05-2026\/ncrb-crime-report \" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73218,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73212\/revisions\/73218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}