'On the same day that eight policemen were gunned down in Uttar Pradesh, two equally horrific incidents went unnoticed. First, four members of a family were murdered in Allahabad. Then, a 19-year-old Dalit girl and her father were murdered by her stalker, who belongs to the Thakur caste, days before her wedding. These are not isolated incidents, but part of a larger crime arc that would have been labelled ‘gunda raj’ if they had occurred under the governance of a lower-caste Chief Minister.
'The mysterious journey undertaken by the one Kasaragod COVID-19 patient – Patient K – after landing at the Calicut International Airport from Dubai is now being unravelled. It has now come out that Patient K is a suspected gold carrier and is part of a gold smuggling racket based in Kasaragod. The contact tracing of the 47-year-old businessman of Eriyal has become a crucial task for the government simply because of the number of people Patient K has met while being infected with the coronavirus.
'Telangana Police’s command and control centre building, at Banjara Hills in Hyderabad, will be ready in six months, and will be able to process footage from 100,000 CCTV cameras in under a minute, the state government said in a tweet on February 14. The tweet, originally, in the Telugu language, claimed that “if you go out for work, 50 cameras will be able to spot you by the time you are back,” and that “every inch of the state will be under police radar”. “If a crime happens anywhere, there will be information immediately,” it added.
'When the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released its data for 2017 on Monday – an entire year behind schedule – a few promised new sections were missing. Data collected under the sub-heads mob lynching, murder by influential people and killing ordered by khap panchayat have not been published. According to the Indian Express, the 2017 report follows a framework largely similar to the 2016 one, except for additions under the cyber crimes and offences against the state category. “It is surprising that this data [on mob lynching, etc.] has not been published.
"In 2013, Gujarat reported a 21% rise in the number of crimes committed in the state. This is perhaps the highest among major states of India as it is surpassed only by two northeastern states - Sikkim (61.2%) and Meghalaya (27.5%). In overall number of crimes, Gujarat is 10th in the country. According to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its report titled, 'Crimes in India 2013,' the three states with the highest number of crimes were Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh..."
