Crimes against people from North-east spurt by over 232%

Reported incidents of crime against people from the North-east living in the city have increased by around 232.58 per cent in two years.

While 89 FIRs in connection with criminal offences against people from North-eastern states were registered in 2013, as many as 280 were lodged in the year that followed and 296 in 2015, according to police records. 

The highest number of cases was registered in South Delhi, where a large number of people from the region live, particularly under the jurisdiction of the Vasant Vihar Police Station, followed by South-east and North-west Delhi, a senior police official said.

Of the total number of cases registered in 2015, there were eight cases of murder and two of attempt to murder, 14 of rape, 16 of molestation and as many as 21 cases related to obscenity and stalking.

Police Commissioner BS Bassi had chaired a high-level meeting last week on emerging challenges and problems faced by people from the North-east.

The Delhi Police have already decided to have women from the north-eastern states as ‘Crime Victim counsellors’, following a spurt in cases of crime against people from there.