Crime against people from the Northeast in the national capital has witnessed a steady rise with the Delhi police receiving 650 calls related to such crimes.
Crime against people from the Northeast in the national capital has witnessed a steady rise with the Delhi police receiving 650 calls related to such crimes.
According to the data compiled by the Delhi police, till November 15 last year, it has received a total 847 calls out of which 645 calls were related to crime.
The police converted 139 of these into FIRs. The number of FIRs stood only at 74 last year.The highest complaints, numbering 259, were rec-eived from South Delhi district, followed by Sou-theast, which stood at 53.
The lowest number of calls, six, were received from Northeast Delhi district. The number of complaints received from other districts stood at: Northwest 44, Southwest 40, North 35, West 32, East 19, Central 15, New Delhi 15, Outer 10, Crime & Railway 8 and out of Delhi 8.
When it comes to police stations, Vasant Vihar got the most calls, 58, followed by Safdarjung Enclave at 48, Kotla Mubarakpur at 23, Malviya Nagar 21 and Mukherji Nagar 20.
These are all areas with considerable population from the Northeast. There were 159 cases related to quarrels, which topped the list.
56 cases of eveteasing were reported, while there were 22 cases of cyber crime/racial discrimination through social media etc. Thirteen cases were of molestation, while six cases of rape and four cases of attempt to rape were also reported.
Last week, three youth from the Northeast were found dead within 48 hours in the city. A 32-year-old Ph.D scholar from Manipur was found murdered with his neck slashed at his home in South Delhi’s Kotla Mubarakpur area on Wednesday night.
The deceased was identified as Keashung Zingram Kengo, who had completed his Ph.D from Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
In another incident reported from Malviya Nagar area, a Manipuri student was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his residence on Thursday morning. The same night, another youth from the Northeast had died after he apparently fell from the staircase at his home in Munirka area in South Delhi.He was in an inebriated condition when the incident took place.
