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Indian Express
05-08-2025
- Indian Express
Haryana tops in digital policing ranking again, 17th time in 20 months
The Haryana Police have once again made its mark by securing the first position in the country for the 17th time in the last 20 months, in the monthly rankings of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) released by the National Crime Records Bureau, under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. The latest rankings, released last week, were issued for the month of June. Director General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kapur congratulated the entire CCTNS team and said, 'This success is a result of Haryana Police's new approach, improved working methods, and effective use of modern technology'. 'This achievement reflects the new thinking and professional approach of Haryana Police, where technology has been made an integral part of policing. Digital platforms like CCTNS and the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) have accelerated the processes of criminal identification, transparent investigation, and timely justice delivery to citizens. With this dedication and teamwork, the Haryana Police will continue to set benchmarks in modern and smart policing across the country,' DGP Kapur said. Sibash Kabiraj, Director of the State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB), said the objective of CCTNS is to develop a fully digital and integrated system for crime investigation, criminal tracking, and case management. 'Several major changes have been implemented over the last two years to enhance technical efficiency and streamline processes within SCRB. As a result of these efforts, the Haryana Police have secured the first position nationwide 17 times in the last 20 months'. Kabiraj stated that Haryana Police have delivered excellent performance across various parameters in the monthly ranking released by the Central Government. 'While the state secured the third position nationwide with a score of 99.99 per cent in August and September 2024, it maintained the first position with a perfect 100 per cent score in other months. Today, all police stations in the state are connected to CCTNS, and all operations such as First Information Reports, Non-Cognizable Reports, medico-legal cases, missing persons, lost property, unclaimed items, unknown dead bodies, foreign registration, preventive actions, investigations, complaints, and progress reports are recorded and monitored entirely in digital form,' Kabiraj said. He hailed the Haryana Police for scaling new heights through the use of technology in criminal identification and solving complex cases. Since 2022, millions of fingerprints have been uploaded on the NAFIS software, and they have been matched with records of arrested accused and unidentified dead bodies, he mentioned. 'A significant number of fingerprint matches have been successfully found with criminal records. Chance prints collected from crime scenes were successfully uploaded and verified on NAFIS. As a result of this technological success, 93 serious criminal cases have been solved, including 22 murder cases. Additionally, 29 unidentified dead bodies have been identified through the NAFIS system', Kabiraj added. To equip police personnel with the effective use of technology, Haryana Police had organised 72 workshops. 'The impact of modern technology is also visible in the field of cybercrime. On the National Cyber Helpline 1930, Haryana Police achieved a 100 per cent score, meaning every single call was attended promptly and immediate action was ensured,' a state police spokesperson said.
The Hindu
20-07-2025
- The Hindu
The Tamil Nadu police to roll out mobile application to collect mandatory audio-visual evidence
A new mobile phone application, called e-Sakshaya, will be rolled out soon for police personnel to collect audio-visual evidence, upload photographs of crime scenes or witnesses, and generate immutable SID packets (secure, geo-tagged, time-stamped evidence with hash verification). This will strengthen the chain of custody and admissibility of evidence, according to a senior police officer. The application was developed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to capture audio and video evidence and generate hash reports with time-stamp. It has an inbuilt system for generating certificates in the prescribed format. This is being implemented through the State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) for the use of investigation officers. Training completed Every investigation officer should record all video evidence, along with audio evidence, wherever necessary, and photo evidence as required under provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the police officer said. The application is loaded in the mobile phones of all investigation officers, including head constables and inspectors. All of them have been trained in using the application, he added. Block chain technology is being used to ensure data integrity and trustworthiness. The application records videos, photographs, and witness details on the scene of crime, and search and seizure by a police officer. The proceedings of search and search would be recorded and forwarded to courts. Unforeseen situations Whenever eSakshya is unavailable owing to unforeseen situations such as lack of connectivity, the audio-video recording should be carried out through other available means. In such cases, Part-A certificate should be issued manually by the police personnel or the videographers who recorded the video on their device and Part-B certificate should be issued by an expert notified under Section 329 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, according to the Tamil Nadu Criminal Procedure Rules. The investigation officer should link SID packets with the First Information Report number/General Diary (GD) number and the case number register (CNR) number. The evidence, once uploaded, would go to the magistrates concerned and the courts may view the evidence in the case information system application/Sakshya portal on the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS), officials said. The ICJS has been established to make the justice delivery system more effective by integrating main parts of criminal justice: the police (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems), courts (e-Courts), jails (e-Prisons), forensic labs (e-Forensic), and prosecution (e-Prosecution).
Indian Express
20-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
As Nitish govt faces attacks on law and order, numbers show why crime in Bihar among India's highest
As Assembly elections approach, a recent spate of murders – the latest on Thursday, when five gunmen shot and killed a notorious criminal on parole inside a private hospital in Patna – has sparked a political row over law and order in Bihar. The Opposition has long been attacking the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government, with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav claiming that Bihar has descended into 'chaos' under the leadership of an 'unconscious CM'. Even Chirag Paswan, who heads the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and is a part of the NDA, has now said that the recent murders 'demonstrate the complete collapse of law and order in Bihar'. While Nitish Kumar is credited across the board for reversing the trend of 'jungle raj' in Bihar, over the last decade under him, data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and the Bihar Police's state-level figures accessed by The Indian Express shows that crime is rising. The rise in the overall number of crimes in Bihar has been 80.2% from 2015 to 2024, as per the State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) data. In contrast, from 2015 to 2022, according to the latest available national-level data, India saw an increase in overall crimes of 23.7%. The number of crimes in Bihar has risen every year since 2015 – barring 2016, 2020 (when the Covid-19 pandemic struck), and 2024. The highest year-on-year increase was recorded in 2017, when crime rose by 24.4%. In 2022, there were 3.5 lakh crimes in Bihar, up 23.3% from the previous year. In contrast, crime fell at the national level – by 4.5% in 2022 and 7.7% in 2021. The latest SCRB data shows the number of crimes rose in 2023 to 3.54 lakh, before falling marginally to 3.52 lakh in 2024. As of June 2025, Bihar has seen 1.91 lakh crimes, more than half what was recorded in 2024. Since 2015, Bihar has been among the 10 worst states in terms of overall cases of crimes. Adjusted for population, though, Bihar's rate of crimes per lakh people has been significantly below the national average. In 2022, Bihar recorded the seventh highest number of crimes at a rate of 277 cases per lakh population. However, India recorded an overall crime rate of 422 cases per lakh population. In fact, after 2015, Delhi reported the highest crime rate for five years, while Kerala ranked the worst for three years. This, however, is also a factor of registration of cases, which could be higher in Delhi and Kerala due to the economic and educational status of its residents. Though Bihar's overall crime rate did not exceed the national average in any year since 2015, the NCRB data shows that Bihar's law and order issues stem from a consistently higher-than-national-average incidence of violent crime. Take murder, for instance. While overall murder cases have fallen from 3,178 in 2015 to 2,930 in 2022, Bihar has ranked second-highest in the country for the number of murders each year since 2015, behind only the much more populous Uttar Pradesh. The number of attempted murders has risen in Bihar, from 5,981 in 2015 to 8,667 in 2022, putting the state at second-highest after UP again. According to the latest SCRB data accessed by The Indian Express, Bihar recorded 1,379 murders till June 2025, compared to 2,786 in all of 2024 and 2,863 in 2023. [CHART: Murders and attempted murders in Bihar]Adjusted for population, in 2022 for example, Bihar recorded 2.3 murders and 6.9 attempted murders per lakh population, exceeding the national average of 2.1 and 4.1, respectively. Over the past decade, while Bihar's murder rate peaked at 3.1 in 2015, the rate of attempted murders was highest in 2017 at 9.1. However, owing to its large population, Bihar's rates of murder and attempted murder make it a middle-of-the-pack state – it ranked among the top-10 states for murder only in 2017 and had the 12th highest murder rate in 2022. However, the state has been in the top five for the rate of attempted numbers every year from 2015 to 2022, suggesting a persistent issue. In 2017, Bihar recorded the second-highest rate of attempted murders. The most common motive for murder in Bihar has consistently been property disputes, which was the most cited reason in all but one year from 2015 to 2022. In 2018, there were 1,016 murders linked to property disputes, the highest on record in this period. As a share of all murders, property-related cases peaked at 36.7% in 2017. In 2022, personal vendetta was the most common motive for murder at 804 cases or 27.4% of all murders. In fact, Bihar has reported the most murders linked to property disputes every year from 2015 to 2022, except in 2018 when UP was on top. While Bihar had recorded the fourth-highest number of murders linked to personal vendetta in 2015, it has been first on this measure from 2018 to 2022. Data shared by the Bihar Police showed that the top motive in 2025 (till June) was personal vendetta, with 513 cases accounting for 37.8% of all murders. Property disputes, at 139 cases, accounted for 10.2% of murders. Behind the high incidence of murder in Bihar are violations of the Arms Act, 1959. The Bihar Police, in a report published earlier this year, identified the prevalence of fake arms licences, illegal firearms and unauthorised sale of ammunition as the primary reasons behind rising violent crime over the last decade. From 2015 to 2022, the number of Arms Act violations rose from 1,846 to 3,549 – an increase of 92.3% – with a majority of cases linked to unlicenced weapons. On this front, Bihar has ranked in the worst five states every year from 2015 to 2022, except in 2016 when it was sixth. In the same period, it was UP that recorded the most Arms Act cases. But as a rate, Bihar has gone from seeing 1.8 Arms Act cases per lakh population in 2015 to 2.8 in 2022, putting it consistently below the national average, which stood at 5.8 in 2022. Among other violent crimes, Bihar has reported an increase from 2015 to 2022 in the number of kidnappings (65.9%), robberies (39.2%), cases voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means (61.3%), and cases of voluntarily causing grievous hurt (17.7%). In 2022, Bihar figured among the top five states for kidnapping, robberies and voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means, and in the top 10 for voluntarily causing grievous hurt. Though cases of dacoity and extortion have dropped considerably in Bihar, it ranks third and seventh respectively among the states. Adjusted for population, Bihar falls below the national average for cases per lakh population for a number of violent crimes. However, in 2022, the state's 13.1 cases per lakh of voluntarily causing grievous hurt and 9.4 kidnappings per lakh are above the national averages of 6.2 and 7.8, respectively. But as per the Bureau of Police Research and Development, which falls under the Union Home Ministry, Bihar has the most stretched police force in the country as of January 2023. At 114.57 police personnel per lakh population, Bihar has the lowest such ratio among the states and higher than only the UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. With a sanctioned strength of 1.44 lakh, Bihar's police force is understaffed with as many as 42,000 vacancies, which is the third-largest such deficit among all states. This is despite spending a larger share of its Budgetary outlay on the police than states like Maharashtra, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana in 2022-23 and having the seventh highest number of police stations in the country.
Time of India
11-07-2025
- Time of India
Govt unveils ₹190-cr plan to modernise police force
1 2 Patna: In a major step towards bolstering law enforcement and public safety, the state govt has announced a sweeping modernisation plan for its police force, backed by substantial financial outlays for the fiscal year 2024-25. The initiative, designed to enhance both policing efficiency and public interface, involves procurement of advanced technology and infrastructure worth approximately Rs 190 crore. Under the plan, all investigating officers will be equipped with laptops and smartphones to comply with new provisions in criminal law mandating the use of audio-visual and electronic evidence. One of the key developments includes the acquisition of 34 mobile forensic vans at a cost of Rs 15 crore. These are intended to meet the legal requirement for forensic experts to visit crime scenes in cases where the potential sentence is seven years or more, a move that, according to police headquarters, bolsters scientific investigation capabilities. Additional director general (ADG) of the State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) and modernisation, Sudhanshu Kumar, said, "The plan also focuses on strengthening surveillance and security infrastructure. A significant allocation of Rs 29 crore has been made for installing CCTV systems at key government sites, including the old secretariat and development buildings. The traffic management system will receive Rs 58 crore for equipment such as body-worn cameras and barriers. " Infrastructure development is another central pillar of the drive. Nine regional forensic science laboratories are being established across various police ranges. Of these, four – located in Purnia, Gaya, Saran and Munger – are already complete while the remaining five in Bettiah, Rohtas, Saharsa, Begusarai and Darbhanga are currently under construction. "Specialised units such as the Special Task Force (STF) and Anti-Terrorism Squad will also receive dedicated funding for equipment and training. A sum of Rs 24 crore has been allocated to upgrade communication systems and equipment," the ADG added. He added that the comprehensive modernisation plan represents a transformative leap for the Bihar Police. "This initiative marks a significant step in enhancing the police force's capacity to maintain law and order while adapting to the growing challenges of modern policing," Kumar said. "It is expected to greatly improve both operational efficiency and public service delivery," he added.
The Star
07-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
SCRB acquires land in Sarawak for RM5.6mil
PETALING JAYA: Supreme Consolidated Resources Bhd (SCRB) is proposing to acquire a parcel of mixed zone land measuring 14,690 sq metres in Kuching, Sarawak from Globalmas Sdn Bhd for RM5.6mil. In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, the integrated fast moving consumer goods firm said it intends to construct a new warehousing and cold storage facility that will serve as an additional distribution centre for the group in Sarawak. 'The current warehousing and cold storage facilities are operating at almost full capacity, resulting in the need to rent additional storage space occasionally to store products which increases expenses and reduces operational efficiency. 'The new warehousing facilities will include a new warehousing area, cold storage facilities (such as freezer and chiller room to store frozen and chilled food), office, loading and unloading bay.' Additionally, SCRB said the new warehousing facility with an expanded total built-up area and pallet space will provide the group with future growth and expansion at the same time increase operational efficiency.
