Chennai: Tamilnadu registered a significant increase in the number of cases of crime against women and children in 2020, as per the Crime in India report released by the National Crime Records Bureau. Cases of juveniles in conflict with the law also increased sharply.

Coimbatore and Chennai in Tamilnadu have registered the lowest crime rate against women among 19 big cities in the country, according to the NCRB data.

The rate of crime, which is incidence per 100,000 population, against women last year is 9 in Coimbatore, 13.4 in Chennai, 37.5 in Kochi, 67.3 in Bengaluru, and 53.8 in Mumbai. The crime rate is highest in Lucknow (190.7); it’s 162.9 in Jaipur and 129.1 in Delhi, according to the NCRB data.

For crimes related to Indian Penal Code, Tamilnadu reported 1,85,912 crimes in 2018, 1,68,116 crimes in 2019 but saw an increase of a whopping 8,91,700 cases in 2020. However, most of the 8.90 lakh cases were chargesheeted taking the total charge sheeting rate of the state to 91.7, as per NCB.

The NCRB report stated: ‘Major increase in number of IPC cases filed was seen in the cases registered under disobedience to order duly promulgated by Public Servant (Section 188 IPC) from 29,469 cases in 2019, to 6,12,179 cases in 2020 and under Other IPC Crimes from 2,52,268 cases in 2019 to 10,62,399 cases in 2020.’