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Dimapur, April 2 (EMN): Nagaland has been ranked third among 29 states and 7 union territories (UT) in the list of lowest crime rate under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The list was recently released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
However, the latest NCRB data covers only the period between 2014 and 2016. According to the NCRB numbers, Nagaland ranks lowest among the Northeast states in the list of “state/UT-wise IPC crimes and crime rate from 2014 to 2016”.
Nagaland recorded 1376 crimes in said period, the NRCB data shows. In the three years between 2014 and 2016, Nagaland's IPC crime figure remains the lowest among the Northeast states; conversely, Assam has the highest recorded crimes.
On a broader scale, the crime rate of Assam is ranked among the top 5 list of states with highest number of crime records in the country.
Aside from recording the lowest IPC crime cases in the Northeast, Nagaland has been ranked third highest in the crime category of Special and Local Laws (SLL) with 1670 cases. Arunachal Pradesh recorded the lowest SLL crimes in the NE with 542 crimes.
As reported earlier in Eastern Mirror, criminal offences under the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act had topped the SLL chart with 503 cases during 2014, 2015 and 2016. Cases under the Foreigners Act had the lowest registration at 13.
From 2014-16 there were as many as 5337180 SLL crimes committed across the country, according to the NCRB.
Violent crimes
In 2016, Nagaland recorded 302 cases of violent crimes – the second lowest among NE states, behind Mizoram. Assam topped list with 24165 – ranking 6th highest in the country.
In the national scale, Nagaland ranked 29th. Out of the 15 categories under violent crimes, Nagaland recorded 'nil' in infanticide, foeticide, and attempt to commit culpable homicide. ‘Kidnapping and abduction’ recorded the most with 91 cases.
Also, under Grievous Hurt (Sec 325,326, 326A and 326B IPC) including cases of ‘acid attack’ and ‘attempt to acid attack’ crimes, Nagaland has the least recorded cases in the Northeast with 37, followed by Meghalaya with 113. There were 36 murder cases in Nagaland in 2016. Ten were recorded under ‘personal vendetta or enmity’; six for property disputes; seven for 'gain'; one during ‘robbery/extortion’; one under ‘lunacy’; and 11 under ‘other motives’.
Crime against women
As per the NCRB record, Nagaland recorded the least cases of 'crime against women' in the Northeast for three consecutive years (2014, 2015, and 2016). Though the chart shows that crime against women increased each year – from 68 in 2014 to 91 crimes in 2015 and to 105 in 2016 – the rank among NE states remained lowest each year.
In 2016, Nagaland was ranked 32nd in the list making it ‘the safest place for women’ out of all the 29 states and three other UTs.
Among all the 29 states, Nagaland registered the lowest number of cases under ‘crime against children’, according to the NCRB data. In 2014, Nagaland recorded 25 cases of crime against children; 61 in 2015; and 78 in 2016. A total of 290553 cases of crime against children were recorded across the country in the period between 2014 and 2106.
In the same period, Nagaland recorded two cases of cyber crime – to rank lowest among NE states. Assam's record of 1558 cases made it the highest ranked in the region.
Also, even as economic offences committed from 2014 to 2016 increased yearly, Nagaland still recorded the least in Northeast with 322 offences followed by Mizoram with 327.
In the NCRB chart, ‘currency recovered’ in Nagaland during the 2014-2016 reads ‘nil’. In the Northeast only Assam and Manipur have recorded ‘counted figures’. Also, the NCRB record shows that no cases of 'killed in police firing' were recorded in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura. On crimes committed by foreigners, Nagaland has a record of one case in 2016.