Crimes against Women have increased at an alarming rate in the city with 224casessolely registered at the states only all-women Police station from January to this date, as against 207 cases lodged throughout last year.
According to theNational Crime Records Bureaureport for 2020, as many as 26,352 cases ofcrimeagainst women were registered across the state last year, 30,025 in 2019 and 27,687 in 2018. Out of the total number of cases, 1,657 were rape cases and 502 were related to dowry.