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New Delhi: Crimes against the state have gone up in 2022 from 2021, with just UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967) seeing a rise of 23 percent, according to the data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Sunday...
Overall crimes against the state have gone up to 5,610 cases in 2022 from 5,164 in 2021, but the UAPA numbers are significantly higher 1,005 in 2022 from 814 in the previous year...
The NCRB breaks up Offences against State into several sub-categories like UAPA, Section 121-124 (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and the Official Secrets Act, apart from activities amounting to imputation, and assertions prejudicial to national integration under the IPC...
Only West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir reported cases of sedition in 2022...
Punjab and Haryana have seen a significant rise in UAPA cases with Punjab reporting 25 cases in 2022, compared to 14 in 2021, while Haryana reporting 11, up from 2 in 2021...
