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Nagpur, Patna have highest murder rate in country: NCRB data

National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)’s 2020 data has revealed that Nagpur and Patna have the highest murder rate (3.9) in the country per one lakh population, followed by Jaipur (3.1) and Delhi (2.8).
Nagpur, Patna have highest murder rate in country: NCRB data
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NAGPUR: National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)’s 2020 data has revealed that Nagpur and Patna have the highest murder rate (3.9) in the country per one lakh population, followed by Jaipur (3.1) and Delhi (2.8).
The method of calculating the murder rate, using the population census of 2011 — when Nagpur had 25 lakh population — was, however, challenged as an “erroneous one” by the city’s former and current top cops.

According to the senior cops, Nagpur, with 97 murders in 2020, has a higher rate than Mumbai (148 murders) because of the population density of 2011, and not as a fallout of law and order.
Former city police chief (CP) BK Upadhyay said a lot of correspondence had been made with NCRB, right from the time when K Venkatesham was CP (2014-15), pointing out the disparity between the present population (around 40 lakh) and that in 2011, which is being made the basis of calculation of the current crime rate.
Upadhyay said, “NCRB adds the preventive actions of proactive policing to the number of offences registered, which increases the crime rate. The policing which helps the society goes against the department, when it comes to crime rate calculation. When a lower population figure is used to calculate, the percentage increases.”
Though the overall numbers of violent crimes have been steadily decreasing in Nagpur, certain crimes like murder, rape, theft and a few such others have blotted the image. “Serious offences had certainly fallen by 20-25% when I handed over the charge,” said Upadhyay.

NCRB data put Nagpur, with a rate of 25.0 per one lakh population for violent crimes, at third place in the state after Mumbai (184) and Pune (50.5).
The data also showed Nagpur and Surat had the second highest number of murders in the country over romantic relationships (11) after Delhi (17). Around 15 murders were related to monetary disputes in Nagpur, which is the third highest in the country for this motive. Around 23 murders took place due to personal vendetta. Four senior citizens were among the ones murdered in Nagpur in 2020.
CP Amitesh Kumar said Nagpur historically has a background of a high number of murder cases which, on an average, hovers around 100 annually. “In the last few years, the commissionerate had a population surge as several villages from the Nagpur district and three talukas were inducted, which made the crime rate (crime per one lakh population) higher,” Kumar said.
In cases of hurt, especially the ones involving weapons, Nagpur had the highest crime rate (4.1) in the state, followed by Mumbai (3.4) and Pune (3.1).
Nagpur's 82.7 crime rate in theft cases is the highest in the state, surpassing Mumbai (33.9) and Pune (31.0). In the crime rate of automobile thefts too, Nagpur (47.0) is the highest in the state, followed by Pune (19.3) and Mumbai (15.2). Nagpur's rate of burglary (27.5) is also more than Mumbai (8.9) and Pune (6.8).
Citizen activist Tejinder Singh Renu said that by and large, Nagpur is a safe city. “Under CP Amitesh Kumar, the city police are doing a fine job of keeping the crime rate under control,” Renu stated.
He added, “Citizens should also understand their duty to avoid roaming around in deserted areas during odd hours. We can't keep our houses/shops unlocked because of carelessness and then complain about obvious consequences and an unsafe society.”
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Proshun Chakraborty

Proshun Chakraborty is a Senior Correspondent at The Times of India, Nagpur. He covers news on traffic, the zilla parishad, the district collectorate, the divisional commisionarate and fire control. His hobbies include surfing the net, reading and travelling.

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