India third highest in rape cases

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI) India stands third, leaving behind countries like Sri Lanka, Jordan and Argentina, when it comes to rape cases, latest data of the Union Home Ministry suggest.

Ahead of India are only the United States and South
Africa.

According to the data, 18,359 rape cases were registered
in India in the first three quarters of this year while in the
US, 93,934 and in South Africa 54,926 rape cases were
registered respectively.

The lowest number of rape cases were registered in Jordan
(78), Latvia (260), Bulgaria (403) and Finland (596).

Some of the other countries where a large number of rape
cases were reported include Germany (8,133), Thailand (5,060),
Sweden (3,787) and Argentian (3,447).

Altogether 44,159 cases of different sex offences were
registered across India in the said period. In such cases too,
India stands third after England and Germany where 62,100 and
47,070 cases were registered respectively.

Four other countries where the number of sex offences
were high include Canada (26,044), Australia (17,516), Sweden
(7,924) and Argentina (3,473).

According to the data, the incidence of various crime per
one lakh population in India are -- murder (3), sex offences
(4), rape (1.7), serious assault (24.6) robbery and violent
theft (2.1), breaking and entering (8.2) and theft of motor
cars (7.8). PTI ACB
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