Punishing dissent: NCRB data shows why sedition must go
Drawing by Arun Ferreira
The Financial Express / by The Financial Express
Cases recorded as offences against the state in the National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB’s) latest Crime in India Statistics report (for 2017)—such offences were separately recorded by NCRB only since 2014—saw a jump of 23%, from 6,986 cases registered in 2016 to 9,013 registered in 2016.
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