: Why 7.5 lakh police cases are closed every year in India for ‘lack of evidence’ #IndiaNEWS Soon after an attack on her residence in Parpa village in south Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district in January

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Why 7.5 lakh police cases are closed every year in India for ‘lack of evidence’ #IndiaNEWS
Soon after an attack on her residence in Parpa village in south Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district in January 2017, human rights activist and lawyer Bela Bhatia filed a complaint with the local police. She named some of the attackers, and shared photographs she had managed to take of part of the mob and of a partial number plate of one of the vehicles the alleged culprits had travelled in, she claimed. The mob was still present when police arrived on the scene, she told IndiaSpend. Yet, by the end of the year, the police had decided to close the case for lack of evidence and inability to identify the attackers.Bhatia’s case is not an exception. It was one of over 8,30,000 complaints that were disposed of due to lack of evidence that year, accounting for 15% of the 49 lakh cases that the police had disposed of that year. On average, about 7,50,000 complaints registered under the Indian Penal Code and Special and Local Laws (specific to a certain subject or state) were similarly disposed of annually in the five years to 2020, successive Crime in India reports compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau show. These cases were deemed true, ie the incidents occurred, per police records, but were...Read more

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