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Mixed bag for police on crime, naxal front

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: A steep decline in Naxalite violence by 65 per cent has been offset by the increase in other offences committed in the State during 2006.

At an year-end press meet to present a round-up of the crime situation, the outgoing Director General of Police, Swaranjit Sen, said on Saturday that the violence by CPI (Maoist) was the lowest ever with just 203 incidents reported across the State.

He said 136 extremists, including a State Committee secretary, Madhav, and a Central Committee Member of Maoists, Wadkapur Chandramouli, were killed in encounters. The year also saw the recovery of 305 weapons, 320 extremists surrendering and 717 other comrades arrested.

But the police could not prevent a rise in overall crime. There were 1.60 lakh cognisable offences as against 1.43 lakh cases in 2005.

The economic offences went up from 7,184 to 7,545, gender crime from 14,673 to 17,294 and cases under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act from 2,122 to 2,174.

Mr. Sen said cases of communal nature also went up from 26 to 29 and road accidents from 38,913 to 42,569. The casualties in these accidents were 12,643 as against 11,098 last year.

Recruitment

He added that the largest recruitment in police department was undertaken during the year with the induction of 6,031 civil constables, 1,142 constables of AP Special Police and 600 sub-inspectors. The results of the test to recruit SIs would be declared in February.

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