Crime related to minors up by 131.7 per cent in the last 10 years
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PUNE: Crime in Maharashtra, 2009, a report published by the State Crime Records Bureau, which was released on Saturday, states that crimes relating to minors has gone up alarmingly by 131.7 per cent in the last 10 years.
The report containing a review of crimes in the state was released by the state director general of police D Sivanandhan on the concluding day of Maharashtra state police duty meet at the state reserve police force, Group I at Ramtekdi.
According to the report, the rate of crime involving minors, both boys and girls between 16 and 18 years, has gone up at an alarming rate. In the present age, problems of minors in conflict with law is intimidating society though NGOs are planning different schemes to dissuade these children from crime. An alarming rise has been noticed in cases registered against juvenlies in conflict with law. This requires sincere and sensitive attention of not only of the state government, but of all well-wishers of society.
The report goes on to say that though Maharashtra is by and large a peaceful state, it is pertinent to note that the percentage of violent crime compared to the total Indian Penal Code (IPC) crime is only 10.51 per cent and the rate of violent crime per one lakh population was 17.54 per cent which had come down by 1.88 per cent compared to last year.
Rural areas, comprising Beed, Gadchiroli, Hingoli, Parbhani, Latur, Ahmednagar, Jalna, Solapur (rural), Wardha, Akola, Nanded, Washim, Osmanabad, Pune (rural), Buldhana, Amravati (rural) were comparatively more affected, posing challenge before the police unit commanders of the districts.
The report also highlighted that robbery cases had increased by 100 per cent or more in Sindhdurg and Pune railways, compared to 2008. There has been an increase of 9.34 per cent in robberies in 2009 compared to the previous year. The other highlights of the report said that a total of 3.5 lakh cognizable offences were reported in 2009 , an increase of 2.6 per cent compared to 2008, 2 cognizable offences reported on an average for every 3 minutes, 1 IPC and 1 Special Local Laws (SLL) crime registered every 3 minutes, overall crime rate in the state was 167.0 per cent with the highest crime rate recorded in Amravati ( 315.2 per 1 lakh population), 4.81 per cent decrease in rape and 7.21 per cent decrease in kidnapping and abduction of women and girls when compared with 2008.
Though the state has comparatively done well in law and order, the conviction rate is as low as 9.6 per cent with just marginal increase of 0.2 per cent compared to last year, as far as IPC cases are concerned. Conviction rate in area other than IPC crime is comparatively better with the increase of 8.6 per cent reaching to 18.8 per cent in 2009. Though the state police have taken special efforts by introducing various measures, there is no noticeable increase in conviction rate which may require some more time.
Not only the courts, but the government is also making efforts on war footing to minimise the pendency in the courts for which the active and timely assistance is very much required by the police machinery like service of summons and warrants, producing the suspects in the courts, etc and co-operation from the prosecution side.
The report containing a review of crimes in the state was released by the state director general of police D Sivanandhan on the concluding day of Maharashtra state police duty meet at the state reserve police force, Group I at Ramtekdi.
According to the report, the rate of crime involving minors, both boys and girls between 16 and 18 years, has gone up at an alarming rate. In the present age, problems of minors in conflict with law is intimidating society though NGOs are planning different schemes to dissuade these children from crime. An alarming rise has been noticed in cases registered against juvenlies in conflict with law. This requires sincere and sensitive attention of not only of the state government, but of all well-wishers of society.
The report goes on to say that though Maharashtra is by and large a peaceful state, it is pertinent to note that the percentage of violent crime compared to the total Indian Penal Code (IPC) crime is only 10.51 per cent and the rate of violent crime per one lakh population was 17.54 per cent which had come down by 1.88 per cent compared to last year.
Rural areas, comprising Beed, Gadchiroli, Hingoli, Parbhani, Latur, Ahmednagar, Jalna, Solapur (rural), Wardha, Akola, Nanded, Washim, Osmanabad, Pune (rural), Buldhana, Amravati (rural) were comparatively more affected, posing challenge before the police unit commanders of the districts.
The report also highlighted that robbery cases had increased by 100 per cent or more in Sindhdurg and Pune railways, compared to 2008. There has been an increase of 9.34 per cent in robberies in 2009 compared to the previous year. The other highlights of the report said that a total of 3.5 lakh cognizable offences were reported in 2009 , an increase of 2.6 per cent compared to 2008, 2 cognizable offences reported on an average for every 3 minutes, 1 IPC and 1 Special Local Laws (SLL) crime registered every 3 minutes, overall crime rate in the state was 167.0 per cent with the highest crime rate recorded in Amravati ( 315.2 per 1 lakh population), 4.81 per cent decrease in rape and 7.21 per cent decrease in kidnapping and abduction of women and girls when compared with 2008.
Though the state has comparatively done well in law and order, the conviction rate is as low as 9.6 per cent with just marginal increase of 0.2 per cent compared to last year, as far as IPC cases are concerned. Conviction rate in area other than IPC crime is comparatively better with the increase of 8.6 per cent reaching to 18.8 per cent in 2009. Though the state police have taken special efforts by introducing various measures, there is no noticeable increase in conviction rate which may require some more time.
Not only the courts, but the government is also making efforts on war footing to minimise the pendency in the courts for which the active and timely assistance is very much required by the police machinery like service of summons and warrants, producing the suspects in the courts, etc and co-operation from the prosecution side.
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