Jaipur witnessed 18% rise in rape cases in 2016

The pink city witnessed 18 per cent increase in rape cases last year with 25 per cent of them lodged by couples living in live-in relationships or had relationship in lieu of a job or marriage, a senior police official said today.
330 rape case were registered in 2016 as compared to 279 such cases in 2015, Jaipur Police Commissioner Sanjay Agarwal, while revealing statistics of annual crime report, said.
He, however, said 50 per cent of the 276 cases disposed of till December 2016 were false.
Overall crime rate, registered under various IPC sections, has reduced by 12 per cent last year as compared to 2015.