Kolkata is the safest city in the country, Delhi tops the crime list

Abhijit Ray, KolkataKolkata is the safest and most secure city in the country. Kolkata has the lowest serious crime rate compared to other cities in the country, according to National Crime Records Bureau records released on Monday. Even in terms of special and local laws, the crime rate in Kolkata is very low. Accordingly, the total crime rate is lower in Kolkata.As per the recently released NCRB records of 2021, Kolkata has a crime rate of only 92.6 per lakh population in terms of serious crimes. Delhi has a crime rate of 1771.7, which is more than 19 times that of Kolkata. Serious crime rate is 388.3 in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, 700 in Surat, 488.6 in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, 247.8 in Kanpur, 759.5 in Jaipur in Rajasthan, 345.9 in Mumbai, 529.9 in Chennai, 231.7 in Hyderabad.This rate is much higher than Kolkata in other cities of the country. Last year there were 45 murders in Kolkata. There were 472 killed in Delhi, 104 in Lucknow, 164 in Mumbai, 164 in Chennai, 118 in Jaipur. Incidence of wife killing for money is also less in Kolkata than other states.On the other hand, cases have been registered under the UAPA Act against nearly three hundred people in Jammu and Kashmir in the last one year, the highest in the country. The number of cases filed against Kashmiris is also the highest among the Union Territories.According to NCRB Report 2022, Delhi is the most dangerous city for women. The number of crimes against women in the capital has increased by almost forty percent in the last one year.Statistics show that on an average two minors are raped in Delhi every day. Bengaluru ranks second in the list of most dangerous cities for women. Crime against children has increased by nearly twenty percent in Punjab, despite a decline in crime.