Bihar also held a top position in rioting and communal/religious riots with 9,422 and 117 cases, respectively. As many as 1,286 riots related to agrarian, 234 dispute and 42 student-related riots were recorded last year.
The state witnessed 2,619 cases of crimes against Women and stood second after Uttar Pradesh (UP) with 3,077 cases in this category.
There was, however, a slight decline of 4.3% in criminal cases in the state under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) or under the Special and Local Laws (SLL) in 2020, when 2,57,512 crimes were registered against 2,69,109 in 2019. However, the murder cases saw an increase of 0.4% with 3,150 incidents reported in 2020 against 3,138 in 2019. Bihar was second after UP in murder cases.