Kashmir has witnessed an alarming 25 percent increase in crime rate after 2019, according to National Crime Bureau (NCB) report released recently. Gruesome murders hogged headlines this year sending shockwaves across Kashmir.
According to the NCB report the murder cases saw an increase of 25% with 149 cases in 2020 as against 119 in 2019. There were 136 cases of murder in 2021 against 149 in the previous year. J&K recorded 119 murder cases in 2019. There were 487 cases of attempt to murder, 35 cases of abetment of suicide and 24 cases of abetment of suicide of women in 2020. The crimes against children also witnessed an increase of around 29% with 606 incidents in 2020 in comparison to 470 and 473 cases each in 2019 and 2018, respectively.
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