Via PTI
MUMBAI: As many as 64,656 prison instances have been registered in Mumbai in 2021, a soar of 26 in line with cent from 2020, basically because of a upward push in offences associated with violation of COVID-19 measures, whilst incidents of crime in opposition to girls stood at 5,496 closing yr, up from 4,539 within the yr earlier than that, police commissioner Hemant Nagrale mentioned on Tuesday.
He mentioned the rise in prison instances was once basically because of registration of numerous offences below the IPC phase 188 (disobedience to reserve duly promulgated through public servant), which was once invoked in opposition to the ones no longer following COVID-19-related protocols and violating curbs installed position to stem the unfold of the an infection.
Phase 188 IPC offers with other people disobeying orders handed through a public servant, and offers for prison phrases starting from one to 6 months.
For the ones violating orders handed below the Epidemic Sicknesses Act, which was once invoked when the coronavirus pandemic hit India in 2020, phase 188 the IPC is the supply below which punishment is given through courts.
Nagrale was once talking to newshounds at an tournament organised for the e-newsletter of ‘Annual Document-2021’. This kind of file was once closing revealed in 2006, an legit mentioned.
Briefing the media about crime statistics within the monetary capital, the senior IPS officer mentioned 51,068 prison instances have been registered in 2020 (as in comparison to 64,656 in 2021) and in 2019 this determine was once 41,931.
A complete of 30,843 instances have been registered below the IPC phase 188 in Mumbai in 2021 as in comparison to 22,824 in 2020, he mentioned.
The whole crime detection fee in 2021 was once 82 in line with cent, up from 79 in line with cent in 2020, the police commissioner mentioned.
In step with the file, 177 offences have been registered in line with day in 2021 and the selection of homicide instances larger through 3 in line with cent in comparison to 2020.
There was once a 20 in line with cent build up in property-related offences in 2021 at 10,418 from 8,646 in 2020, it mentioned.
Final yr, the Mumbai police interested by tackling crimes in opposition to girls and the ones taking place within the cyber international, Nagrale mentioned.
Crimes in opposition to girls integrated rape, kidnapping, molestation, eve teasing, harassment below IPC phase 498A (husband or relative of husband of a girl subjecting her to cruelty) homicide, suicide, psychological and bodily harassment because of different causes.
General, crime in opposition to girls in 2021 has lowered through 942 when in comparison to 2019, but if in comparison to 2020, the instances have larger through 957, he mentioned.
Mumbai noticed registration of five,496 instances below this class in 2021, 4,539 in 2020 and six,438 in 2019.
The whole detection fee of crime in opposition to girls in 2021 was once 79 in line with cent, down from 83 in line with cent in 2020, he mentioned.
Lots of the undetected instances associated with live-in relationships or marriage guarantees no longer fulfilled, he mentioned.
In step with the file, there was once a 21 in line with cent build up in crimes connected to ladies in 2021.
There was once a fifteen in line with cent build up in rape instances in 2021 (888) as in comparison to the yr earlier than that (776). This determine was once 1,015 in 2019.
Talking about rape instances, he mentioned ‘buddies’ and ‘social media buddies’ shaped the class for the best possible selection of accused in such cases.
Identified accused class (the place sufferers have been aware of the accused) accounted for the second one best possible selection of offenders, he mentioned.
Rape incidents the place minors have been sufferers and have been dedicated through neighbours have been down in 2021 as in comparison to 2019.
Talking about cases of kidnapping and lacking individuals between 2014 and 2021, Nagrale mentioned a complete of 76,467 sufferers in such instances have been traced out of 86,349.
As many as 4,465 abducted boys have been traced out of 4786 instances, while 8,596 kidnapped women have been traced out of 9,124 instances, he mentioned.
In 2021, 4,185 kg of gear and narcotics ingredients have been seized below the NDPS Act (referred to as ‘NDPS estate’ within the file) as in comparison to 1,127 kg in 2020 and 1,276 kg in 2019, he mentioned.
When it comes to price, the restoration in 2021 was once price Rs 151,40,96,851 and Rs 28,83,78,669 in 2020, the police commissioner mentioned.
On financial offences, the IPS officer mentioned in 2021, Rs 62.84 crore of belongings and different pieces have been seized in such instances out of which Rs 39.84 crore price of estate was once returned to complainants and buyers.
A complete of 21,81,628 ‘challans’ (superb receipts) have been issued through the Mumbai site visitors police in 2021 for violation of regulations and greater than Rs 56 crore was once recovered from offenders, he mentioned.
As many as 8.06 lakh instances of two-wheeler riders using with out helmets have been detected, Nagrale mentioned.
Talking about disciplinary movements in opposition to erring legislation enforcement staff, Nagrale mentioned 81 law enforcement officials have been suspended in 2021.
There have been 2,437 law enforcement officials and different staff who have been punished on quite a lot of grounds, whilst 32 officers have been disregarded from carrier, he mentioned.
Police staff have been at the vanguard of preventing the COVID-19 pandemic in Mumbai and 126 such staff, together with 87 constables, died whilst appearing quite a lot of tasks, the IPS officer mentioned.
