: Of the 574 cases reported in the Capital on a daily basis, nearly 420 remain unsolved, shows a comparison of figures shared by the Delhi Police. The figures state that the percentage of cases solved have gone up but there has been a dip in the total number of heinous cases registered, which include murder, rape and molestation of women.
According to figures released by the Delhi Police, the overall number of criminal cases registered in the city have coninued to see a rise, crossing the 2 lakh mark for the first time. In 2016, the city saw 2,09,519 cases registered under the Indian Penal Code which is 9.4 per cent more than the previous year when 1,91,377 were reported under different categories.
The number of solved cases among these are 55,957 (26 per cent) implying that the remaining 1,53,562 remained unsolved. The number of heinous crimes in the Capital saw a dip, coming down by 26.36 per cent compared to last year. The annual report released on Monday claims that the police also showed a better detection rate as far as these henious crimes are concerned as it improved by 12.82 per cent.
This impovement is in comparison with the detection rate compared to crimes registered in 2015. The number of heinous crimes – which includes murder, attempted murder, robbery, rape and molestation of women — in 2016 was 8,238, nearly 3,000 less than the corresponding figures in 2015 which was 1,1187. The police said that 71.67 per cent of such cases were solved.
The report says that incidents of dacoity reduced by 38.67 per cent, murder by 7.37 per cent, attempt to murder by 16.10 per cent, robbery by 35.72 per cent, riot by 39.23 per cent, kidnapping for ransom by 36.11 per cent and rape by 2 per cent.
Joint Commissionner of Police (South Western Range) Dependra Pathak said strategies such as crime-mapping and identification of hotspots with the help of PCR prompted the decline in registration and improved the detection rate.
This figure when compared to the overall detection rate of 26 per cent appears paltry. The reason of overall numbers remaining low is a huge number of unsolved cases of theft, burglary and motor vehicle thefts.
Last year, 85 per cent of vehicle thefts and house thefts remained unsolved. While 40 per cent of kidnapping cases went unsolved, 65 per cent of snatchings and 40 per cent of extortion cases weren't cracked either.
