Bengal gains highest success in recovering/tracing missing children'

Amitava Banerjee | MP | 23 October 2019 | Kolkata: After a delay of two years, the Crime in India Report for 2017 was released by the National Crime Records Bureau.

As per the report, 3,59,849 cases of crime against women were reported in the country with Uttar Pradesh topping the list with 56,011 cases followed by Maharashtra with 31,979 cases.

West Bengal registered the highest success in terms of children being traced or recovered in 2017. In the year 2017, 3,055 missing children from West Bengal were traced, which accounts for 14.7 percent of all children traced (20,713) throughout the country.

In terms of crimes against women, Kolkata recorded 15 cases of rape and 53 cases of stalking in 2017 against 1,170 rapes and 472 cases of stalking in Delhi.

The city has also emerged as the safest among 19 Indian cities, including the metros, in crimes committed per lakh population.

Last year, Coimbatore had beaten Kolkata to the top spot. Bengal, too, has improved its ranking — jumping to 11th spot from 19th last year — among 29 states in the same index.

West Bengal's jump in the index is largely due to its improved performance in human trafficking.

It has dropped to the fifth spot after being the number 1 in 2016.

In 2017, West Bengal is behind Maharashtra, Telangana, Assam and Jharkhand. The state also recorded a lesser number of rapes (1084 cases) in 2017.