Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh topped the country in terms of the number of violent criminal incidents in the year 2024 as well as in 2023. The three states also recorded a huge spike in such cases. The data was revealed in a National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report for 2024 released on Wednesday.
Incidentally, Manipur, where ethnic violence had erupted in May 2023, had registered 14,427 violent crime incidents during the year, which came down drastically by 89 per cent to only 1,614 in 2024.
In 2024, Bihar reported 1,07,303 incidents of violent crime, about 105 per cent more than 52,165 such incidents reported in 2023. Maharashtra reported 87,791 incidents of violent crime in 2024, nearly 89 per cent more than 46,249 such cases registered in 2023. Similarly, Uttar Pradesh recorded 85,647 such incidents in 2024 against 49,453 reported in 2023, logging an increase of 73 per cent.
In both 2023 and 2024, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh were the top three states in the number of criminal cases registered under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as under its successor the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which came into force on July 1, 2024.
According to the NCRB data, Uttar Pradesh topped the list of states with 4,30,552 cases of crime registered in 2024. It had registered 4,28,794 cases a year before, a negligible rise of 0.40 per cent. In 2024, Maharashtra recorded 3,83,044 incidents of crime, 0.6 per cent less than 3,85,623 such cases registered in the state in 2023. Madhya Pradesh stood third with 2,82,874 cases of crime registered under both the IPC and the BNS in 2024, against 2,97,689 registered in 2023, recording a fall of about 5 per cent.
