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Common Crimes
Common Crimes
Common Crimes
Crime in India is very common and happens in many different ways. Along with violent
crimes (like homicide, robbery, and assault), and property crimes (like burglary, theft, motor vehicle
theft, and arson), there are major problems with organized crime, the illegal drug trade, arms
trafficking, corruption, and many other forms of crime. The most common types of crimes in India are
listed below.
Contents
1Organized crime
2Illegal drug trade
3Arms trafficking
4Poaching and wildlife trafficking
5Cyber crime
6Corruption and police misconduct
o 6.1Petty crime
o 6.2Passport theft
o 6.3Scam incidents
6.3.1Taxi scam
o 6.4Rape of foreigners
7Crime over Time
8Crime by area
9Notes
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961) (today, the word narcotic usually means "illegal
drugs")
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971) ("psychotropic substances" are drugs that
change the way the brain works; this causes changes in how a person feels, what they think is
real, and how conscious they are)
The Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1972) (a change or update to
the original Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs)
The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances (1988)[6] (a treaty, or agreement, among most of the countries in the United Nations,
and some other countries; its goal was to help enforce the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances)
Computer hacking (where a person breaks into a computer using another computer, and steals
information)
Cyber stalking (following someone all the time, using a computer, to make them feel scared)
E-mail fraud (for example, emailing people asking to send money in scams)
Spam (where "spammers" get email addresses for thousands of people and send them all
unwanted ads)
India has tried many things to decrease cyber crime. In May of 2000, the Parliament of India passed
a law called The Information Technology Act 2000 was passed by the Parliament of India in May
2000. Its goal was to decrease cyber crimes and start setting up laws to allow e-commerce (where
many)ey could be exchanged electronically.[16] However, Pavan Duggan, a lawyer with the Supreme
Court of India and cyber law expert, complained that the IT act focused too much on promoting e-
commerce and not enough on dealing with cyber crimes.[15] Cyber crime cells have been set up in
major cities. But Duggal said the problem is that most cases are never reported because people do
not know their rights under Indian law.[15]
In 2001, India and United States joined together in an Indian-US cyber security forum as part of
a counter-terrorism dialogue.[17] In 2006, India and the US agreed to have their law
enforcement agencies work together more in fighting cyber crimes. They saw this as an important as
part of counter-terrorism efforts.[17]
In 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met to discuss
cyber security. Afterward, they held a press conference together. They said that because cyber
security and cyber forensic research (like finding evidence in computers) are so important, India and
the United States were also talking about a draft protocol on cyber security.[17]
% Change in 2006
212.0 231.0 356.0 120.0 -38.0 176.0
over 1953
In 2006, the highest crime rate was reported in the city of Pondicherry (447.7%) for crimes
under Indian Penal Code. This is 2.7 times the national crime rate of 167.7%. Among states in
India, Kerala reported the highest crime rate at 312.5%.[40]
About 34% (one out of three) IPC crimes in India's very large cities happened in only three of
those cities: Delhi (16.2%), Mumbai (9.5%), and Bangalore (8.1%).[23]
Of the 35 very large cities in India, Indore reported the highest overall crime rate (769.1%). The
second- and third-highest crime rates were from Bhopal (719.5%) and Jaipur(597.1%).[23]
Some cities had higher rates of violent crime than the whole country of India. India's national
violent crime rate was 18.4%. Jammu and Kashmir's violent crime rate was 33.7%; Manipur's
was 33.0%; Assam's was 30.4%; and both Daman and Diu's and Pondicherry's were 29.4%[23]
Uttar Pradesh reported the highest rate of violent crimes. Violent crimes in Uttar Pradesh made
up 12.1% of the total violent crimes in all of India (24,851 out of 2,05,656). Violent crimes
in Bihar made up 11.8% of violent crimes in India. (24,271 out of 2,05,6556).[23]
Among India's 35 very big cities, rapes in Delhi made up 31.2% of total rape cases in the 35
cities (533 out of 1,706).[23] Madhya Pradesh has reported the highest number of rape cases
(2,900), making up 15.0% of the rape cases reported in all of India.[23]
Uttar Pradesh reported 16.9% (5,480 out of 32,481) of India's murder cases, and 18.4% (4,997
out of 27,230) of the country's attempted murder cases.[23]