No crime against senior citizens in J&K from 2014-16

JAMMU : In the three years duration between 2014 and 2016, there were zero cases of crime against senior citizens in Jammu and Kashmir, even as two states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh contributed for nearly 40 per cent of such crimes while national capital New Delhi which figured among the top seven states in such crimes, recorded a sharp decline in 2016.

All this was revealed by Home Ministry statistics.

“No cases of crime against senior citizens were registered in Jammu and Kashmir between 2014 and 2016,” the data incorporated in ‘Crimes in India' show.

In 2016, 40.03 per cent of the total 21,410 cases of crimes across India against senior citizens -- people aged 60 years and above -- were reported from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, the data showed.
A total of 7,419 cases of such crimes were registered in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in 2014, or 39.64 per cent of 18,714 cases filed in the country that year, while in 2015, out of 20,532 cases, 39.04 per cent were filed in the two states, a home ministry official said, quoting the statistics incorporated in the report 'Crimes in India'.

Individually, Maharashtra topped the list with 3,981, 4,561 and 4,694 cases in 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh followed Madhya Pradesh with the most number of such cases.

In Delhi, 1,021 cases (5.45 per cent) were registered in 2014, and 1,248 cases (6.07) per cent in 2015.
In 2016, the year for which the latest figures are available, Delhi saw 685 cases or 3.19 per cent of the total number of cases across the country.

The population of the National Capital Territory is 1.38 per cent of India's total population.