New Delhi: Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh accounted for nearly 40 percent of crimes against senior citizens in India between 2014 and 2016, government figures show.
According to the federal Home Ministry statistics, Delhi was among the top seven states in such crimes though it recorded a sharp decline in 2016.
In 2016, 40.03 percent of the total 21,410 cases of crimes across India against those aged 60 years and above were reported from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, the data showed.
A total of 7,419 such crimes were registered in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in 2014, or 39.64 percent of 18,714 cases filed in the country that year. In in 2015, out of 20,532 cases, 39.04 percent 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.
The crimes included assaults, cheating and robbery.
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh followed Madhya Pradesh with the most number of such cases. In Delhi, 1,021 cases (5.45 percent) were registered in 2014, and 1,248 cases (6.07) percent in 2015.
In 2016, the year for which the latest figures are available, Delhi saw 685 cases.
No cases of crime against senior citizens were registered in Jammu and Kashmir between 2014 and 2016, the data show
Uttarakhand and the northeastern states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland reported fewer than 10 such cases in the three years.
(Source:morungexpress.com)