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The Trinamool Congress enactment connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) highlighted the precocious released study by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to emphasise that Kolkata has registered 1 of the lowest transgression among large metropolises successful the country.
Several Ministers of the West Bengal ruling enactment highlighted the complaint of transgression successful Kolkata and lauded the enactment of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. As per Crime successful India, 2023 published successful the past week of September 2025 Kolkata has registered 83.9 cognizable offences per 1 lakh population. Rate of transgression is calculated successful presumption of transgression recorded per lakh of population.
“With lone 83.9 cognizable offences per 1 lakh population, Kolkata records the lowest transgression complaint among 19 large Indian cities with populations exceeding 20 lakh. For the 4th consecutive year, Kolkata has earned this distinction, a testament to the visionary enactment of Hon’ble CM @mamataofficial...” the Trinamool Congress quoted Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya arsenic saying. Minister for women and Child Development Sashi Panja besides took to societal media and said that Kolkata has been recorded safest metropolis for women for the 4th clip successful a row.
“Kolkata reaffirms its presumption for the 4th clip arsenic India’s safest city, a reflection of Hon’ble Chief Minister @mamataofficial’s imaginativeness and her zero tolerance attack to crime,” Trinamool posted connected societal media.
The BJP enactment successful the State, however, disputed the claims of Kolkata being the safest city. BJP spokesperson Keya Ghosh said that the NCRB does not make its ain information and publishes reports connected the ground of what is sent by the State government. Ms. Ghosh claimed that the information provided by the West Bengal to the NCRB is manipulated to contiguous a rosy picture. The BJP person besides pointed retired that the aforesaid NCRB study has highlighted that West Bengal recorded highest incidents of acerb onslaught successful 2023. The State recorded 57 of the 207 incidents of acerb attacks crossed the country.
Only a twelvemonth agone protests implicit the rape and execution of an connected work doc at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital had rocked Kolkata for weeks astatine a stretch. Over the past respective years the Trinamool Congress enactment had highlighted the debased complaint of transgression successful Kolkata reflected successful the NCRB study arsenic a large occurrence of the instrumentality and bid concern nether its regime.
Experts constituent retired the disparity successful what is reflected successful the NCRB study and the concern connected crushed portion referring to the rampant governmental unit successful the State. During the panchayat polls successful West Bengal successful 2023, the State had recorded wide governmental unit and astir 50 deaths, whereas the NCRB study for the aforesaid twelvemonth recorded lone 1 governmental execution successful West Bengal successful 2023.
On the time erstwhile the State’s ruling enactment highlighted that Kolkata was safest city, determination were reports of 3 convulsive deaths, 1 from Baranagar successful the bluish fringes of the metropolis and 2 from Murshidabad district. While miscreants killed a jewellery store proprietor successful Baranagar, the deaths successful Murshidabad were killed successful crude weaponry explosions.
