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Delhi Police needs urgent steps to strenghten ties, regain faith of citizens; filling up vacancies key for quick probes, disposal of cases
Praja •The survey results show that of the total households surveyed in Delhi, 10 percent respondents witnessed crimes in the city, of which 57 percent did not report it to the police.
Dabholkar, Pansare murders: CBI, CID pin hope in forensics as investigations reach dead end, get rapped by Bombay HC
Fp Staff •Justices SC Dharamadhikari and Bharati Dangre rapped the CBI and CID of Maharashtra Police for their failure to apprehend the culprits in the murder of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare
Urban murders: In India, there's little understanding of the psychology of killers
Shantanu Guha Ray •This is the second in a two-part series about the rising incidence of urban murders, which looks at the psychological perspective
Aspiration, greed, jealousy, malice: Cops explain why urban murders are on the rise in India
Shantanu Guha Ray •What can explain the uptick in murders in India despite data on homicides that says they are on the decline?
India short of 500,000 police officers: Here's how staffing is linked to crime rates
Indiaspend •India was short of more than half a million police officers on 1 January, 2015, the last date for which nationwide data are available, the Lok Sabha, Parliament’s Lower House, was told on 26 July, 2016
NCRB stats confirm Delhi's reputation as 'rape capital', show major rise in cases in Mumbai
Fp Staff •NCRB statistics show that the number of reported cases of rape as a proportion of the total population is by far the highest in Delhi as compared to other cities in the year 2014.
Love affair, illnesses, exam failure and more: Infographic shows why Indians are committing suicide
Fp Staff •In 2014, 131,666 people committed suicide in India according to the National Crime Record Bureau report on Crime in India, 2014.
Ninety four percent of pickpockets held in Delhi Metro are women
Fp Archives •An overwhelming majority of the pickpockets - 94 per cent - caught in the Delhi Metro network this year are women, an official data has revealed.
Shopkeeper rapes 14-year-old girl in Muzaffarnagar
Fp Archives •A 14-year-old girl was raped by a shopkeeper in Sadar Bazar locality under Civil Lines police station here, police said on Thursday.
Badaun: Minor dalit girl gangraped, dies after hospital refuses treatment
Fp Archives •A minor dalit girl was allegedly gangraped by three youths when she had gone to fetch water in Civil Lines area here, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.