Crime Rate In Telangana Increased: Cyber Crime By 57 Percent, White Collar Crime By 35 Percent

Hyderabad, Dec 29 (Maxim News): The Director General of Police, M. Mahender Reddy said that the crime rate in the Telangana state has increased in the year 2022. It has witnessed a rise in cybercrime by 57 percent and white-collar crime by 35 percent which led to a significant rise in crimes like robbery, burglary, thefts, kidnapping, and white-collar officers.

Addressing the press conference on the performance of the Telangana Police, today, he said the overall crime rate in the state has increased by 4.44 percent. There was also a rise in fatalities due to road accidents this year. A total of 6746 people died in road accidents in 2022 as against 6690 fatalities last year. While there is an increase in white-collar offenses, there is a also reduction in crimes like murder for gain, dacoity, murders, culpable homicide, rape, rioting, NDPS Act, and POCSO cases.

The DGP said that Telangana Police is working on the principle of extending uniform service to all citizens across the State. The increase in crime rate is because of an increase in cybercrime cases, he pointed out. There was no major Maoist-related violence reported in Telangana in 2022 and nearly 120 extremists have surrendered this year. “Whenever we got information about the Maoist movement, anti-Maoist operations were carried out successfully under the Government’s orders to make the state Maoist free, ” he said, ” that there was no communal violence incident in Telangana in 2022. He said that steps have been taken to prevent communal clashes from happening across the state, and he said that they have done it to prevent terror attacks from happening. He said that the Crime Investigating Cell and the Intelligence system have worked very well. (Maxim News)


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