At the second State Single Women Action Network (SWAN) Convention held in Madurai on March 22, 2025, Ms. Monisha Sundararaman presented the highlights of the VAWG How She Figures – NCRB Meta Data 1953 to 1022 report.
~ Did you know ~
- India tracked cattle theft at the national level right from the first annual Crime In India report in 1953. It took till 1971 to similarly track rape.
- Gendered data on children apprehended for rape was tracked as early as 1958 but children as victims was recorded only since 2017.
- Till 2000, kidnapping of women and girls was considered a crime against property, while kidnapping of men and boys was a crime against life.
- Though there was a law to prohibit dowry since 1961, data is published only since 1988 – after 27 years.
- Crime In India has a separate chapter on ‘Crime Against Women’ only since 1992.
- There are over 110,000 cases of rape pending in the trial courts for over 5 years.
- In 2021 and 2022, there are more recorded rapes of girls below 18 than of adult women.
- Only in fire accidents, in the recorded number of victims, the women (67%) are more than the men (33%), possibly due to ‘stove bursts’.
- In 2022 alone, 28,847 women and 13,981 girls are recorded to be kidnapped to force them into marriage.
- Conviction rate in 2022 for rape of girls is 30% and of women is 28.5%. In cases of rape-and-murder, it is 67% with a pendency rate of over 95%.
- Courts are literally waiting for the accused to die before taking up cases of crime against women and girls or letting them off due to advanced age.
- In India it’s legal to rape a woman provided the rapist marries the victim before or after the rape.
- In 2013, in the aftermath of Nirbhaya, there was a 35% jump in recorded rape. There will be a similar jump in recording for 2024 and 2025.
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