NCRB: Crime rate decreases in Karnataka, but rate of violent crimes up in 2024

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NCRB clubs rape, effort  to rape, foeticide, infanticide, dowry deaths, murder, culpable homicide, effort  to murder, effort  to culpable homicide, hurt, kidnapping and abduction, rioting, robbery, dacoity and arson arsenic  convulsive  crimes. 

NCRB clubs rape, effort to rape, foeticide, infanticide, dowry deaths, murder, culpable homicide, effort to murder, effort to culpable homicide, hurt, kidnapping and abduction, rioting, robbery, dacoity and arson arsenic convulsive crimes.  | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto

The transgression complaint successful Karnataka saw a marginal diminution successful 2024 compared to 2023, according to information released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) connected Wednesday. Bengaluru, too, recorded a driblet successful transgression rate. However, it remains marginally higher than the fig of cognisable crimes registered successful 2022.

Violent transgression goes up

However, the complaint of convulsive crimes successful the State and Bengaluru has gone up, information indicates. 

NCRB clubs rape, effort to rape, foeticide, infanticide, dowry deaths, murder, culpable homicide, effort to murder, effort to culpable homicide, hurt, kidnapping and abduction, rioting, robbery, dacoity and arson arsenic convulsive crimes. 

A elder constabulary authoritative said that the information indicated that the astir convulsive crimes similar execution and abduction had travel down, and rape cases remained precocious owed to cases being registered successful cases of insignificant elopement.

“Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, came into unit midway done 2024. Certain definitions changed. This could person led to immoderate distortion of data, and it volition beryllium hard to comparison information from 2023 and 2024,” helium said.

Low chargesheeting rate 

NCRB information shows the chargesheeting complaint is debased successful the State, peculiarly successful Bengaluru. It is pegged astatine 72.9% for the State and 54.4% successful Bengaluru, which means successful conscionable implicit fractional of the cases registered successful Bengaluru, chargesheets were filed.

Published - May 07, 2026 07:29 p.m. IST

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