77 Rape Cases Daily, 80 Murders a Day in 2020, NCRB Report Shows Spike in Crime Against SC/STCases of kidnapping and abduction, however, went down by over 19 per cent in 2020 as compared to 2019, the NCRB report showed.

Seventy-seven rape cases every day, 80 murder incidents daily on an average, and 84,805 cases of kidnapping and abduction were lodged in 2020, the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2020, issued on Wednesday, showed.

Here are key points from the data:

• 28,046 Rape Cases, 3,71,503 Crimes Against Women: Nearly 77 rape cases were reported across India on an average every day in 2020, totalling to 28,046 such incidents during the year. Overall, 3,71,503 cases of crime against women were reported across the country last year, down from 4,05,326 in 2019 and 3,78,236 in 2018, the NCRB stated. Of the total cases of crimes against women in 2020, there were 28,046 incidents of rape involving 28,153 victims, according to the NCRB data for the year, which witnessed COVID-19 outbreak and pandemic-induced lockdowns.

ZzxxxxxxxxxzxzzzzzzzzxffdddfcRape Cases in Previous Years: The number of rape cases, as defined in Indian Penal Code section 376, stood at 32,033 in 2019, 33,356 in 2018 and 32,559 in 2017. The figure for 2016 was 38,947, according to NCRB data from corresponding years.