Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar‘s claims of good governance are being questioned and rightly so. Police data on all crimes in the state for the year 2018 suggests the Bihar CM’s claims were wrong.
The police statistics revealed the number of criminal cases in the whole state. It provides data for heinous crimes like killing, abduction, rape and incidents of communal violence, all of which are on the rise.
As per a report in Jansatta, the data indicates that despite some parts of Bihar being Naxalite areas, the maximum amount of crime still seems to have taken place in Patna, the capital. There were astounding 32,000-odd criminal cases registered in the Patna district. According to the report, there were 277 murders in the Patna district alone. More than 2,900, on the other hand, were murdered across the state. That makes the state capital’s share of murders a little less than ten per cent. Patna also topped the rank in robbery, theft and plundering too with about 40 instances of dacoity in the capital in the previous year.
Two thousand nine hundred thirty-three cases of murder, 30,915 cases of communal violence, 1,475 cases of rape, 10,301 cases of kidnapping, 1,734 cases of robbery, 121 cases of roadside robbery and nine cases of bank robbery had been registered in 2018, the data showed.