New Delhi: Crime against Scheduled Tribes rose by around 29% riding on an increase in cases from one to 3,339 in 2023 in ethnic violence-hit Manipur, even as 15 states and union territories saw a decrease and ten others reported not a single incident.

However, the disposal of cases by police and judiciary have not gathered pace with a report showing that the investigations in 42.7% of cases are pending while 93% cases under trial were not concluded. In Manipur, 99.3% cases were pending while none of the cases on trial saw a conclusion.

The Crime in India 2023 report by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), which was released on Monday, showed that there were 12,960 cases of crime against 13,740 STs reported, which was an increase of 28.8% from 10,064 cases in 2022. In 2021, there were 8,

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