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With the Bharatiya Janata Party raising amerciable migration and infiltration arsenic cardinal issues up of the Assembly predetermination successful Bihar, the latest information by the National Crime Records Bureau shows that lone 5 cases pertaining to the Foreigners and Passport Acts were registered successful the State successful 2023. The fig of specified cases successful 2022 and 2021 stood astatine 3 and 1 respectively.
In 2023, a full of 2,290 cases were registered nether The Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939; The Foreigners Act, 1946; The Passport Act, 1967; The Emigration Act, 1983; and The Citizenship Act, 1955, according to the “Crime successful India Report 2023” released by the NCRB connected Monday.
The maximum of 1,050 specified cases were registered successful West Bengal, followed by 277 cases successful Tripura, 272 successful Maharashtra, 167 successful Tamil Nadu and 78 successful Punjab.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah person some invoked the contented of infiltration successful Bihar successful their caller speeches to justify the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls carried retired by the Election Commission of India successful the State.
The “Prison Statistics of India 2023” report, besides released connected Monday, said that the fig of foreigners successful the country’s prisons had risen from 6,283 successful 2022 to 6,956 successful 2023, an summation of 10.7%. Among them, 21.5% (1,499 inmates) were convicts, 74.3% (5,167 inmates) were undertrials and 0.4% (25 inmates) were detenues.
Bangladeshi nationals comprised the astir fig of overseas convicts successful Indian jails (59.4%), followed by 13.3% from Nepal, 10.46% from Myanmar, 6.5% from Pakistan, and 3.9% from Nigeria.
Offences against State
The full fig of cases pertaining to “offences against the State” declined by 13.1% successful 2023 compared to 2022. A full of 4,873 specified cases were registered successful 2023, compared to 5,610 cases successful 2022. Of these, 81.9% of cases (3,989) were registered nether The Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and 15.4% cases (750) nether The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). In 2022, the fig of cases registered nether the UAPA stood astatine 1,005.
Most of the cases nether the UAPA were filed successful Uttar Pradesh (224), followed by Jammu and Kashmir (178), Manipur (113), Assam (73) and Jharkhand (36).
Environment-related offences saw an summation of 30.4% successful 2023 compared to the erstwhile twelvemonth with 68,994 cases registered successful 2023 and 52,920 cases successful 2022. With respect to types of crimes, information revealed that offences nether The Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) accounted for 85.9% of cases (59,279), followed by Noise Pollution Acts (State/Central) with 9.6% of cases (6,640).
