If the latest data by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is to be believed, after many decades Indian women had a relatively good year in 2020. As per the bureau’s ‘Crime in India-2020′ report, crimes against women decreased between 2019 and 2020 by no less than 8.3%. In 2020, a total of 3,71,503 crimes against women were recorded against 4,05,326 crimes in 2019. The NCRB observed in its report, “The country remained under complete lockdown from March 25, 2020, to May 31, 2020, due to COVID-19 Pandemic (First Wave), during which movement in public space was very limited. The cases registered under Crimes against Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Theft, Burglary, Robbery, and Dacoity have therefore declined…”
Was the country actually safer for women in 2020 amid the COVID-19 lockdown? Let us start by looking at domestic violence data to get a clearer picture.
According to the data by the National Commission for Women (NCW), domestic violence against women had increased manifold during the lockdown. Only between March 25 and May 31, the NCW received 1,477 complaints of domestic violence from women. This short span of 68 days recorded more complaints than those received between March and May in the previous
— source newsclick.in | Priyanka Ishwari | 29 Sep 2021