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Bengaluru: Domestic violence, molestation most common crimes against women

Bengaluru recorded 3,157 complaints of crime against women through 2015

Bengaluru: 70% of crimes against women are cruelty in marriage, molestation
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Rape, attempt to rape, dowry-related killing or harassment, assault to outrage or insult a woman’s “modesty,” sexual harassment, domestic violence, etc are classified as crimes against women under the IPC. Photo: Reuters

Elizabeth Mani | IndiaSpend Bengaluru
More than 70% of crimes against women reported in Bengaluru in 2015 consisted of two types of cases: Cruelty by the husband or the in-laws, and molestation. The city recorded 3,157 complaints of crime against women through 2015–more than eight every day on average.

In this second part of our series on crime in Bengaluru, based on police records accessed by IndiaSpend and 101Reporters through Right to Information (RTI) filings, we analyse and map data on crime against women to see where crime is concentrated and during what time of day,