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Nearly 100 more crimes took place per million people in 2017 compared to the previous year (2016), though heinous crimes such as murders and rapes came down, shows a recently-released national data on crime.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Monday released data on crime in 2017 with a massive lag of more than a year. Crimes rose from 3,793 per million in 2016 to 3,886 per million in 2017.
Crime rate under state laws that pertain mostly to prohibition, narcotics, excise, electricity-related ones and gambling rose faster than crimes under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
IPC crime incidence also rose, with
