EM Bureau
Dimapur, Sep. 11 (EMN): Nagaland reported high share of habitual offenders to convicts admitted during 2021, along with the other states including Delhi, Mizoram, West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
A total of 3,333 convicts were habitual offenders/ recidivists which accounted for 3.2% of total convicts (1, 04,735) admitted during the year 2021.
States reporting highest share of habitual offenders to convicts admitted during 2021 were Delhi (28.5%), Mizoram (15.3%), Andaman & Nicobar Islands (8.8%), Nagaland (7.9%) and West Bengal (7.7%). This was reported by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its prison statistics in India.
According to the bureau’s report, a total of 1,10,113 convicts were lodged in various jails of the country consisting of “offences affecting the human body” (96,481), “offences against public tranquility” (231), “offences against property” (9,902), “offences relating to documents and property marks” (302), “offences against women” (20,275) as on December 31, 2021.
Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of convicts (25,512) followed by Madhya Pradesh (18,101) and Chhattisgarh (7,081), accounting for 23.2%, 16.4% and 6.4% of the total convicted inmates lodged under various IPC crimes, respectively.
Among the convicts of offences against human body, the highest number of inmates were convicted for murder (67.3%, 64,913 convicts) followed by convicts of rape (14.9%, 14,361 convicts) and convicts of attempt to murder (6.2%, 6,012 convicts) as on Dec. 31, 2021.
Among the convicts of offences against women, the highest number of inmates were convicted for rape (70.8%, 14,361 convicts) followed by convicts of dowry deaths (22.0%, 4,458 convicts) as on Dec. 31, 2021.
In Nagaland as on December 31, 2021, the number of cases registered under Indian Penal Code (IPC) against murder was 33; culpable homicide not amounting to murder (3); dowry deaths (0); attempt to murder (2); kidnapping and abduction (1); rape (23); assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty (2) and total offences affecting the human body (64).