Kolkata has once again emerged as the safest city in India for the fourth year running, recording the lowest rate of cognisable crimes in 2023, as per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The data was recorded on 19 metropolitan cities such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune and Surat. According to the NCRB report, Kolkata recorded 83.9 cognisable offences per lakh population in 2023, lowest among the 19 Indian cities with populations above 20 lakh that the bureau surveyed. Among these metropolises, cities reporting the highest charge-sheeting rate under IPC crimes are Kochi (97.2 per cent), Kolkata (94.7 per cent) and Pune (94.0 per cent), the data said. NCRB said the average rate of cognisable offences across the 19 cities in 2023 was 828 per lakh. The bureau also noted a decline in Kolkata’s crime rate over the past two years: 86.5 in 2022 and 103.5 in 2021. Here's a list of top 10 safest cities in India City Cognisable crimes per lakh population Kolkata 83.9 Hyderabad 332.3 Pune 337.1 Mumbai 355.4 Coimbatore 409.7 Chennai 419.8 Kanpur 449.1 Ghaziabad 482.6 Bengaluru 806.2 Ahmedabad 839.3 Top 10 unsafe cities in India Kochi (Kerala) 3192.4 Delhi 2105.3 Surat 1377.1 Jaipur 1276.8 Patna 1149.5 Indore 1111.0 Lucknow 1015.9 Nagpur 962.2 Kozhikode 886.4 Ahmedabad 839.3 Ahmedabad falls at the border between safe/unsafe group. The NCRB compiles statistics from police records submitted by states and union territories; its figures therefore reflect reported and recorded cognisable offences. Analysts say such data are useful for comparisons and trends but note they depend on uniform reporting and registration practices across jurisdictions.
