Is Delhi the most unsafe place for children to grow? Isolated incidents apart, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) numbers conform to the tag that the city is trying to get rid of.
In light of the numbers, that the NCRB has shared in its compiled crime statistics for 2014 and 2013, Delhi remained the State with the highest rate of crime against children i.e. instances of crime per lakh population.
The numbers, which include both sexual and non sexual crimes ranging from rapes to murder to infanticide, show shocking numbers coming from the Capital. The rate was 166.9 in 2014 and 132.3 the year before. Even if one is to look at the numbers recorded in 2014, Delhi accounted for nearly a tenth of the total number of cases registered in the country with 9350 such crimes taking place here and in the overall list, it was only third after the more populous States of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
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As far as ‘unnatural offences’ against children were concerned in 2014, as many as 130 such cases were reported in Delhi, the city topping the chart yet again. This was followed by Haryana (108) and Kerala (107), meaning that between them, the three States had registered nearly half of the 765 cases registered in the country.