Crime and astonishment

8226; Assam has reported the highest number of culpable homicide cases not amounting to murder due to love affairs. For a culturally progressive state like Assam, this comes some what as a shock, as more caste conscious states like UP and Bihar, have reported 3 and 4 cases respectively while Assam reported 17 such cases. In fact, of all the registered cases of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for reason of love the country over, Assam has the largest share at 38.6 per cent.

8226; Andhra Pradesh reported an amazing 91.1 per cent of all cases in the country under Indecent Representation of Women Prevention Act 2657 out of 2917 cases. Its capital Hyderabad, topped the chart of 35 mega-cities reporting the highest number of cases under this Act. The Telugu heartland certainly breaks the rule books when it comes to splashing women indecently in posters, magazines, advertisements.

8226; Jammu and Kashmir reported the highest crime rate of sexual harrassment cases : 3.3 cases per lakh population. This is more than thrice the national average. And you thought it all happened in the big bad metros.

8226; West Bengal keeps to its image as the state of the Bhadralok. If the NCRB figures are anything to go by, then West Bengal goes against the trend through the country, where in more than 85 per cent of rape cases, the perpetrators were known to the victim. It8217;s in the Bengali bastion that in only 2.9 per cent of the cases, are the perpretarors acquaintances, relatives or known people. Women in Bengal appear to be relatively safer in their homes and neighbourhoods than their counterparts across the country.