VISAKHAPATNAM: With 185 cases, Andhra Pradesh ranked fifth in the country in cases booked against the police personnel in 2021.
According to the crime in India 2021 report released by NCRB, the cases registered against the police personnel decreased by over 29 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020. The cases against the police personnel decrease to 185 in 2021 from 261 in 2020.
It may be recollected that in 2019 AP police admitted that they had erroneously submitted false data to and that the total cases against cops were 111, and not 1,681.
Bihar tops the list with 4,062 cases against the police in 2021, followed by Maharashtra with 448 cases, Rajasthan (245), Gujarat (209) and Andhra Pradesh with 185 cases.
Out of the 185 cases, 61 cases have been charge-sheeted, 103 of them are arrested, 18 cases saw the final report being submitted, 11 cases have been withdrawn and trials were completed on 12 persons. Yet again, there were zero convictions while the acquittal rate stood at 100 per cent in all the 12 cases that were disposed by the courts.
The data revealed that 26 cases were registered for Human Rights violation by the police in the state in 2021. Out 26 cases, six cases were registered for encounter killing, seven cases for deaths in custody, three cases for torture/causing hurt/ injury and two cases for extortion.
Another dubious distinction in Andhra Pradesh is that of custodial deaths with AP ranking third in the country after Gujarat and Maharashtra in 2021. A total of six persons died in police custody of which five happened to be remand prisoners. Out of these six cases, a magisterial inquiry was ordered in three cases.
The AP police have been coming under criticism for suppressing the protests of the opposition parties in parts of the state.
According to the crime in India 2021 report released by NCRB, the cases registered against the police personnel decreased by over 29 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020. The cases against the police personnel decrease to 185 in 2021 from 261 in 2020.
It may be recollected that in 2019 AP police admitted that they had erroneously submitted false data to and that the total cases against cops were 111, and not 1,681.
Bihar tops the list with 4,062 cases against the police in 2021, followed by Maharashtra with 448 cases, Rajasthan (245), Gujarat (209) and Andhra Pradesh with 185 cases.
Out of the 185 cases, 61 cases have been charge-sheeted, 103 of them are arrested, 18 cases saw the final report being submitted, 11 cases have been withdrawn and trials were completed on 12 persons. Yet again, there were zero convictions while the acquittal rate stood at 100 per cent in all the 12 cases that were disposed by the courts.
The data revealed that 26 cases were registered for Human Rights violation by the police in the state in 2021. Out 26 cases, six cases were registered for encounter killing, seven cases for deaths in custody, three cases for torture/causing hurt/ injury and two cases for extortion.
Another dubious distinction in Andhra Pradesh is that of custodial deaths with AP ranking third in the country after Gujarat and Maharashtra in 2021. A total of six persons died in police custody of which five happened to be remand prisoners. Out of these six cases, a magisterial inquiry was ordered in three cases.
The AP police have been coming under criticism for suppressing the protests of the opposition parties in parts of the state.