AGARTALA, Feb 25 (TIWN): Eventhough Tripura DGP’s claim of declining non-registered FIRs in Tripura, but Tripura Home Ministry could not hide the fact when opposition Congress MLA Ratan Lal Nath as a part of Assembly questioning asked Tripura Govt about the number of registered and unregistered cases. However, it has been revealed from the data that whereas in the year-2014 the number of registered FIRs were 5759 but the non-FIR cases were 1,72,042. In 2015 the number of registered FIRs were 4864 but the non-FIR cases were 1,77,788. Apart from that a month-wise data shows that in 2016 December the FIR number was 281 and non-FIR 9203. In 2017 FIR number was 238 and non-FIR was 1,77,788.Thus one can imagine how a victim has to face hardship lodging an FIR in Tripura police stations.

Allegations also raised that in theft cases, robbery cases FIRs are hardly taken. Even in molestation cases too, just for the sake of reducing crime rate police do not lodge FIRs properly.

Although Police Chief K Nagraj calculated a lump sum data of decreasing crime in Tripura but the Assembly data reveals something else.Moreover, the data of Assembly also exposed that Nagraj's press release about the crime rate are false. However, either Tripura Home Ministry is wrong or the DGP alone is wrong.

 About crime against women, DGP Nagraj made a false data about crime rates of Tripura. According to Nagraj press release, “……….Cases related to torture upon women by husband or relatives of husband, has come down to 410 cases as against 466 in 2015 and 665 cases in 2014. Dowry death cases have come down to 15 as against 27 in 2015 and 35 (As Per Home Ministry's data in the Assembly 61) cases in 2014. 

Rape cases have come down to 189 during this year as against 197 (As Per Home Ministry's data in the Assembly 213) in 2015 and 225 in 2014. Molestation cases have come down to 202 as against 323 (As Per Home Ministry's data in the Assembly 352)in 2015 and 437 in 2014.  Under remaining heads, it has come down to 55 cases during this year as against 98 in 2015 and 76 in 2014”.

The 2015 National Crime Report Bureau (NCRB) reports of Tripura confirms that the state still records serious crimes against women.The rate of Crime Against Women cases in Tripura is 88% while the national normal is 56.3%. Moral policing of the kind listed above seems to be on the rise, with women joining the men in attacking other women.

Apart from that the Police Accountability Office data released recently  (in December, 2016), it was said that 25 % cases are unregistered (i.e. police do not take the cases), and 25 % cases only can end with proper justice. 

However, taking the points of loopholes of data, Trinamool Congress has demanded the resignation of CM Manik Sarkar from Home Ministry; although the Home Minister himself declared that crime against women in Tripura is not exceptional, as 'there is not a single place, a single block....where crimes doesn't happen' !