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Crime in India has been recorded since the British Raj, with comprehensive statistics now compiled annually by the National Crime Records Bureau , under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
As of 2019, a total of 51.5 lakh cognizable crimes comprising 32.2 lakh Indian Penal Code crimes and 19.4 lakh Special and Local Laws crimes were registered nationwide. Showing a 1.6% annual increase in the registration of cases , the crime rate per 100,000 population has increased from 383.5 in 2018 to 385.5 in 2019. More than a fifth of all registered crime were classified as offences affecting the human body, which included violent acts such as murder, kidnapping, assault and death by negligence. According to the UN, the homicide rate was 2.95 per 100,000 in 2020 with 40,651 recorded, down from a peak of 5.46 per 100,000 in 1992 and essentially unchanged since 2017, higher than most countries in Asia and Europe and lower than most in the Americas and Africa although numerically one of the highest due to the huge population.