Ministry of Home Affairs

Arrest Under Anti-Terror Laws

Posted On: 10 AUG 2021 6:12PM by PIB Delhi

The National Crime Records Bureau (sNCRB) compiles data on crime as reported to it by States and Union Territories and publishes the same in its annual publication ‘Crime in India’.  The published reports are available till the year 2019. As per the published reports, the number of cases registered, persons arrested, cases chargesheeted and sent for trial and the number of cases where chargesheet was filed after duration of one year under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) from the year 2017 to the year 2019 is as given below:

 

Year

No. of Cases Registered

No. of Persons Arrested

No. of Cases Charge-sheeted and Sent for Trial

No. of cases where Charge-sheet filed after duration of more than one year

2017

901

1554

272

123

2018

1182

1421

317

62

2019

1226

1948

485

157

 

This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Nityanand Rai in a written reply to question in the Lok Sabha today.

 

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