Madhya Pradesh had the best crime fee towards folks belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) teams in 2021, the most recent 12 months for which National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) information is on the market. The state additionally had the best crime fee towards SCs in 2020, and was ranked second (behind Rajasthan) in 2019, the information reveals. These numbers counsel that anecdotal accounts of repeated atrocities towards Dalits in Madhya Pradesh mirror a sample somewhat than an aberration.

However, the speed at which cost sheets have been filed was increased in Madhya Pradesh than in most Indian states, suggesting that whereas the state police could have been unable to stop such crimes, it not less than pursued them in courtroom extra successfully than most different states.

Crime fee (towards SCs) is the variety of crimes per 100,000 (SC) inhabitants. To make certain, NCRB reviews nonetheless use the 2011 Census inhabitants numbers – the 2021 Census has been delayed indefinitely by the federal government — to calculate the crime fee for later years, which implies that the crime fee calculations might need modified.

Crime charges are a greater strategy to make interstate comparisons as a result of they alter for an upward/downward bias in absolute variety of crimes resulting from increased/decrease inhabitants in a state.

The crimes contains all crimes/atrocities dedicated towards SCs and never simply these which was filed below the Prevention of Atrocities towards SC/ST Act. To make certain, the quantity doesn’t differ loads. For instance, in 2021 there have been 50,900 incidents of crime towards SCs within the nation. This quantity was 7,214 for Madhya Pradesh. The variety of instances the place the Prevention of Atrocities towards SC/ST act was invoked was 45,610 on the all-India stage and seven,211 for Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh had a criminal offense fee of 63.6 towards SCs in 2021 towards the nationwide common of 25.3. These numbers have been 60.8 and 46.7 for Madhya Pradesh in 2020 and 2019. The all-India crime fee towards SCs was 25 in 2020 and 22.8 in 2019. Rajasthan was ranked second by way of crime fee in 2021 and 2020 and it was ranked first in 2019.

Data on crime fee towards Scheduled Tribes (STs) reveals that Kerala topped the record in all three years between 2019 and 2021. Rajasthan was ranked second in all three years and Madhya Pradesh was ranked fifth in 2019, fourth in 2020 and third in 2021.

NCRB reviews additionally give info on police motion or lack of it towards such crimes. When it involves charge-sheet charges – it’s outlined because the share of instances during which cost sheets have been filed in whole instances disposed of by the police – associated to crimes towards SCs, Madhya Pradesh appears to be performing higher as per 2021 information, when it was ranked second solely after Sikkim. Rajasthan, whose crime charges towards SCs is near Madhya Pradesh’s ranges, confirmed a poor charge-sheet fee in 2021. Assam had the bottom charge-sheet fee in crimes towards SCs in 2021. Madhya Pradesh carried out effectively even when it got here to submitting cost sheets in crimes towards STs.