Bihar fighting crime by manipulating data?

May 25, 2016 10:11

Bihar -- Indias third-most-populous state, with the countrys poorest people -- has a crime rate lower than more prosperous states with fewer people, such as Gujarat, Kerala, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, an IndiaSpend analysis of national crime data reveals.

If this is an analysis that is hard to believe -- especially after a slaying in a road rage and a journalists murder sparked debates of Bihar's "jungle-raj", a reference to anecdotal evidence of impunity over growing crime that is because the data are not what they appear.

As IndiaSpend disassembled the data, it became evident that some crimes, such as rape and assault, could be hidden or not reported, but others that result in a body -- such as murder or dowry deaths -- were harder to hide.

A state of 104 million people, Bihar appears to be fighting crime by manipulating data, much like its neighbour and Indias most-populous state, Uttar Pradesh, whose methods of holding down crime -- by not reporting it -- were revealed in an IndiaSpend investigation last year.

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