136 murder cases, 513 attempt to murder cases reported
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir has reported 3,072 violent crimes including 136 murder and 513 attempt to murder cases in 2021, NCRB data has revealed.
The report, a copy of which lies with the news agency Kashmir News Observer, states that 3100 violent crime cases were reported in 2019, 2821 in 2020, and 3072 in 2021.
As per data, the violent crime rate in Jammu and Kashmir is 22.9 and the charge sheeting rate is 67.2 percent.
The violent crime cases in JK include 136 case of murder (U/S 302 IPC), 27 cases of culpable homicide not amounting to murder (U/S 304 IPC), four cases of infanticide, three cases of foeticide, 16 dowry deaths, 513 attempt to commit murder cases and 42 cases of grievous hurt incidents.
It said that the cases also include 1013 cases of murder, 315 cases of rape, 14 cases of attempt to rape, 751 cases of rioting, 104 cases of robbery, three cases of Dacoity and 131 cases of Arson.
The report added that 119 cases of murder were registered in JK in the year 2019, followed by 149 in 2020 and 136 in the year 2021, and the charge sheeting rate of murder cases in the year 2021 is 79 percent.
As per data the motives behind murder include personal vendetta or enmity in 13 cases, child/human sacrifice in one case, communal one case, political reasons in two cases, one honour killing, 10 cases of love affairs, three cases of an illicit relationship, 30 cases of extremism/ insurgency, 15 cases of land/ property disputes, 18 cases of family dispute 4 cases of petty quarrel and 25 cases of blind murder where the motive was unknown.
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