While the national average may have gone down, the data shows spikes in certain areas and categories that are alarming. The number of communal riots came down from 2014, but agrarian riots saw an enormous jump, with as many as 2,683 in 2015. A big chunk of these happened in UP, which aside topping many of the other lists is also gearing up for elections. The number of people arrested for student riots – NCRB is calculated on the basis of First Information Reports – was 3,600, which is almost double of what was recorded in 2014.