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Shame, shame Hyderabad
There has been an alarming increase in the number of rape cases in the city compared to last two years. While 75 cases of rape were reported in 2012, they increased to 102 in 2013. Besides, there is a horrifying 37 per cent rise in cyber crime with offences such as sending objectionable or \"stalking\" text messages or emails being most common, the city police said on Saturday.
Alarming rise in rapes, kidnaps, cyber crimes baffle cops
Introduction of the Nirbhaya Act appears to have little impact on the mindset of criminals who raped as many as 145 girls in Hyderabad City in the current year
Hyderabad: There has been an alarming increase in the number of rape cases in the city compared to last two years. While 75 cases of rape were reported in 2012, they increased to 102 in 2013. Besides, there is a horrifying 37 per cent rise in cyber crime with offences such as sending objectionable or "stalking" text messages or emails being most common, the city police said on Saturday.
Introduction of the Nirbhaya Act appears to have little impact on the mindset of criminals who raped as many as 145 girls in Hyderabad City in the current year. Disclosing crime statistics at a press conference here, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner M Mahender Reddy said that as many as 145 rape cases have been reported in the limits of Hyderabad City Police. Although the other crimes against women like dowry murders are on decline, the criminals have started using cyber space to target innocent women.
There is a slight increase in cases of dowry death as 29 cases were reported so far compared to 28 during last year. A total of 1,674 harassment cases were registered this year compared to 2,238 cases reported in previous year. The City Police Commissioner said the cyber crime wing has registered 90 cases of uploading fake profile of women in social media. Last year, only 16 such cases were reported. Similarly, the cases of staking SMS, email and calls have more than doubled from 46 in 2013 to 105 this year.
There has been a significant increase in kidnapping cases in the city. As against 130 cases in 2013, the number of kidnappings has increased to 356 in 2014. There were five cases of murder for gain, 103 murders, five culpable homicide, 10 dacoities, 52 robberies, 699 house burglaries, 3,649 ordinary theft, 1,264 hurt cases, 2,377 cheatings, 107 criminal breach of trust and 54 rioting cases registered by the city police this year. While 16,359 cases were registered in 2013, this year the number stood at 16,537 registering a marginal increase.
