Patna,(BiharTimes): With 36.6% Bihar accounted for highest percentage of murders over property disputes in the country in 2012. Similarly, the state tops in the political killings.
According to the crime data for 2012––released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in all 1,159 persons were killed over property dispute, which is 32.5% of the total murders, which took place in the state.
Political motives claimed 120 lives across India. Bihar with 32 political murders topped the list to be followed by Madhya Pradesh (28) and West Bengal (22).
Political murders in 2012 were less than the 240 recorded in 2011 and 174 in 2001. The sharp decline is largely due to the fall in such violence in Andhra Pradesh from 39 in 2001 and 33 in 2011 to just two last year.
The state recorded the highest murders over personal vendetta (570) and was next only to much larger and more populated Uttar Pradesh in terms of total murders.
While UP, in all, recorded 4,966 murders last year, 3,566 people were killed in Bihar.
Incidentally, Assam recorded the highest murders due to casteist motives (41), which is 56% of the total murders in this category in the country.
Dowry had its most victims in Odisha and much progressive West Bengal, claiming 415 and 252 lives, respectively. Andhra Pradesh (167), Maharashtra (130) and Bihar (102) follow.
In 2001, 968 women were killed for dowry against 1,339 in 2011 and 1,458 in 2012.
Surprisingly, 119 deaths were caused all over the country in 2012 due to what is called witch-hunting. Most witch-hunting related murders were recorded in Odisha (32), followed by Jharkhand (26), Andhra Pradesh (24) and Bihar (13). The all-India figure in 2012 is much lower than the 240 recorded in 2011 or 126 in 2001.
NCRB report said love remains a potent killer in India. After personal vendetta and property disputes love affairs and sexual relations were the third most common cause for murders in the country in 2012. Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab reports maximum number of such cases.
Personal enmity was behind 3,877 of the 13,448 murders.
Property disputes were the reason for 3,169 murders and love affairs and sexual relations led to 2,549 killings across the country.
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