City police beat Chennai city cops in filing chargesheets

Coimbatore: The city police have topped their counterparts in Chennai in filing chargesheets in the crime cases under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the special and local laws (SLL) in percentage wise, according to the data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
While the city police had registered 10,112 crime cases under the IPC and filed chargesheets in 96.6% of the cases in 2020, the Chennai city police had registered 88,388 crime cases under the IPC and filed chargesheets only in 81% cases.
In most of the crime cases under the IPC, a city police official says, chargesheets are filed before the court within 60 days of arresting the accused, while in murder cases the same is filed within 90 days of nabbing the accused.
As per the data, which was released on Tuesday, the city police had registered 13,932 cases under the special and local laws last year and filed chargesheets in all the cases. It is to be noted that the city police are advised to file chargesheets in SLL cases within 15 to 20 days of arresting the accused.
The NCRB has compiled the data only for the 19 metropolitan cities, which had a population of more than 20 lakh as per the 2011 population census. As per the data, Surat city police in Gujarat topped the country in filing chargesheets in the crime cases registered under the IPC. They had recorded 33,824 crime cases under the IPC last year and filed chargesheets in 96.7% of them. As per the 2011 census, Surat city had a population of 45.8 lakh.
The Coimbatore city police, who filed chargesheets in 96.6% of the 10,112 crime cases, were placed second in this front.
It is to be noted that the crime cases under the IPC had increased drastically in the city to 10,112 last year from 2,567 in 2019 and 2,892 in 2018. The city had a population of 21.5 lakh as per the 2011 census.
The Ahmedabad city police in Gujarat have bagged third place by filing chargesheets in 96.3% of the 61,395 IPC crime cases during the period. Ahmedabad city had a population of 63.5 lakh as per the 2011 census.
The Indore city police in Madhya Pradesh were, however, placed second in the country in filing chargesheets in SLL cases. They had registered 6,446 such cases in 2020 and filed chargesheets in 99.9% of them. The third place was shared by the Ahmedabad city police, Surat city police, Delhi city police and the Kozhikode city police, who filed chargesheets in 99.7% of the cases that they had registered.