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GURUGRAM: Crime in Haryana showed a significant rise from the years 2015 to 2017, data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) showed on Monday.

There was a 57% rise in incidents of crime — from 1,43,111 in 2016 to 2,24,816 in 2017. In 2015, 1,31,989 incidents were reported.

Officials attributed this to the implementation of online registration of FIRs. “Now even for small incidents like missing documents, mobile phone or identity cards, cases are registered online along with other crimes,” a senior police officer said.

A total of 1,046 murders took place in 2017. Of these, there were three cases of honour killing , as compared to two each in 2016 and 2015. Five people, most of them children, lost their lives to human sacrifice, whereas no such case had been reported in the previous two years.

Personal enmity and dispute were the prime motives, data showed. While 277 people were killed over personal enmity, another 200 were murdered over various disputes (90 for property and land; 73 over family dispute; 33 for money; and four over petty quarrels). While 55 people were killed over illicit relationships and love affairs, another 14 were killed over dowry. Nine people were killed during robberies . A total of 123 murder cases could not be solved by police. Most of the victims in the murder cases were men — 851 males as against 195 females.

Around 22 victims were less than six years of age (12 male and 10 female); 13 were in the 6-12 age bracket (seven male and six female); 18 in 12-16 age group (16 male and two female), 15 in 16-18 age group (11 male and four female). Around 421 victims were in the age group of 18-30 years (332 male and 89 female); 381 in 30-45 age group (332 male and 59 female); 158 in 45-60 age group (136 male and 22 female). There were 44 victims over the age of 60 years (36 male and eight female).

NCRB also released figures for attempt to murder, kidnapping and rape . On an average, at least three women were raped every day in Haryana in 2017, shows data. A total of 1,104 cases were registered in 2017, compared to 1,099 in 2016. If one considers the cases of outraging of modesty and other assaults, the number of women victimised every day increases to eight. Around 245 cases were lodged for dowry death against 260 in 2016 and 243 in 2015. There were five infanticide deaths in 2017 against one in 2016. Cases of robbery showed a significant drop at 572, compared to 734 in 2016 and 935 in 2015, data showed.

“NCRB releases crime data annually but they have released it after two years. Regarding data from 2017, many things have changed over the last two years,” said a senior police officer.

