The police recorded 3.6 million criminal cases last year, which is 3 per cent less than in 2021. However, crimes against women, caste crimes and digital fraud increased, according to the Crime in India Report 2022.
The crime rate, or the ratio of incidence of crime relative to population, declined in 2022
Moreover, the number of cases in which police filed charges fell in 2022 after an improvement during the pandemic (chart 2).
Crime rates and charge sheeting differed across various Indian cities. With over 298,000 cases registered in 2022, Delhi reported a crime rate of 1,832.6 per population of 100,000-or seven times the national average. The city, however, had the lowest charge sheet rate of 30.2 per cent.
Jaipur reported a crime rate of 916.7, and POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS Indore 767.7. The crime rate in Mumbai was 376.3 with a higher charge sheeting rate of 77 percent (chart 3).
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