Rajasthan tops rape cases in country, Jaipur 2nd among metro cities | Jaipur News
Despite Covid curbs that remained enforced for several months, Rajasthan recorded 5,310 incidents of rape. Uttar Pradesh ranked second with 2,769 rape incidents, while Madhya Pradesh ranked third with a total of 2,339 cases.
With 409 rape cases, Jaipur was second only to Delhi with 967 cases in the list of 19 metropolitan cities with the highest rape cases.
The data also pointed that the state recorded the highest number of rape cases against minor girls. The state logged 1,279 incidents of rape against girls below 18 years of age. Andhra Pradesh stood second with 577 cases of rape against minor girls.
Talking to TOI, Additional DGP (crime) Ravi Prakash Meharda said the state has a mandatory policy to register each and every FIR that comes to a police station. “We also implemented an important policy that SPs can register FIRs from their offices and if they find out that a particular SHO had turned away the complainant. Action is also recommended against the erring cop,” he said.
The figures also revealed that most of the rape survivors (2,617) were between 18 and 30 years of age, followed by 1,216 women between 30 and 45 years.
NCRB data also discovered a disturbing revelation that in 5,046 cases, offenders were known to the survivor including 721 cases wherein a family member was involved. A total of 2,794 rape cases included offenders who were family friends, neighbours, employers or other known persons.
Only a small number of 264 cases had an unknown perpetrator.
Besides Section 376 (rape) of the IPC, the state also achieved a grim milestone of the highest reported incidents of rape attempts with 965 cases.
While the total number of crimes against women came down compared to last year, the state still recorded 34535 cases of crimes against women in 2020 which was the third-highest in the country.
