Table V4:

Incidence and rate of crimes committed against Women in West Bengal, India and selected states: 1998 & 2001

      Incidence

% share of total CAW

% share of

Rate of total

Rank among 28 states

  Rank among 28 states

        of CAW

caw in all India

 total IPC crime

crime against

 by crime rate of CAW

by % share of total CAW

in All-India

women

1998

2001

1998

2001

2001

2001

1998

2001

1998

2001

Bihar

7105

5356

5.4

3.7

7.4

6.5

22

28

7

12

Gujarat

6658

5805

5.1

4.0

5.8

11.5

11

20

9

9

Karnataka

5516

6002

4.2

4.2

6.2

11.4

17

21

10

8

Kerala

4799

5450

3.7

3.8

5.9

17.1

10

5

11

10

Maharashtra

14266

12524

10.9

8.7

9.7

12.9

6

17

3

4

Mizoram

141

126

0.1

0.1

0.1

14.1

7

15

20

25

Orissa

4450

5357

3.4

3.7

2.6

14.6

13

14

12

11

Punjab

1238

2361

0.9

1.6

1.6

9.7

27

22

17

16

Rajasthan

12159

12175

9.3

8.5

8.8

21.6

1

3

4

5

Tamil Nadu

11201

10111

8.5

7.0

8.8

16.3

4

10

6

6

Uttar Pradesh

17497

20227

13.3

14.1

10.1

12.2

18

19

1

1

West Bengal

6811

6570

5.2

4.6

3.5

8.2

21

27

8

7

All-India

131338

143795

100

100

100

14.0

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