National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report on sedition instances

Key highlights-

• As per NCRB information, Assam recorded probably the most variety of sedition instances within the nation within the final eight years.
• The information confirmed that out of 475 sedition instances registered within the nation between 2014 and 2021, Assam accounted for 69 instances — 14.52 per cent. 
• This implies that round one in six sedition instances registered within the nation within the final eight years got here from Assam.
• The NCRB compiles and publishes crime statistics as reported by states and Union Territories, and information on sedition instances (registered beneath Section 124A of the IPC) is offered since 2014.
• The newest version of the NCRB’s Crime in India report confirmed that 76 sedition instances have been registered throughout the nation in 2021, a marginal improve from the 73 registered in 2020. 
• The variety of these instances stood at 93 in 2019, 70 in 2018, 51 in 2017, 35 in 2016, 30 in 2015 and 47 in 2014.
• A state-wise evaluation of sedition instances exhibits that after Assam, probably the most variety of such instances have been reported from Haryana, adopted by Jharkhand, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. 
• These six states accounted for 250 instances — greater than half the variety of whole sedition instances recorded within the nation — within the eight-year interval.

• Three states, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana — reported eight sedition instances every within the 2014-21 interval, whereas Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh registered six instances and Goa 4.
• Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Lakshadweep registered only one sedition case every. 
• States and UTs that didn’t register even one sedition case in that interval have been Meghalaya, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and Puducherry.
• In the NCRB experiences, information on sedition instances is given beneath the headline ‘Offences Against State’. 
• While instances registered beneath the Section 124A of the IPC have been talked about beneath the sub-head ‘Sedition’, the instances registered beneath Section 121, 121A, 122 and 123 IPC have been given beneath the second sub-head ‘Others’. 
• In all, 149 offences in opposition to the state have been registered within the nation throughout 2021, of which 76 have been sedition instances and 73 have been beneath the ‘other’ subhead. 

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