Chennai: The number of murders, including murder for gain, has not shown any drastic rise or decline in the first seven months of 2026, compared to the previous years – 2024 and 2025. The major reason for murder is recorded as family quarrel, wordy quarrel, love affairs and drunken brawls, in all the three years.
In 2024, a total of 1,490 murders and 75 murders for gain were reported at the rate of 130 murders per month. In 2025, the number of murders, including murders for gain, was 1,542, at the rate of 128 per month, according to the State Crimes Record Bureau. The number of murders in the first seven months of 2026 is 919 at the rate of 131 per month.
The murder attempts recorded in 2024 was 2,657, which comes to 221 per month, while such attempts in 2025 were 2,448, at a monthly average of 204 attempts.
In 2026, till July, 1,510 murder attempts were recorded, at a monthly average of 215.
In 2024, a total of 111 dacoities were reported while it was 129 in 2025 and 83 till July this year. The rate of dacoities per month in 2024 was nine, while it was 10 last year and 11 this year, till July.
The police filed 1,837 robbery cases in 2024, while the same was 1,056 last year and 604 in the first seven months of this year. An average of 153 robberies per month had taken place in 2024 and it fell to 88 per month in 2025 and went down further to 86 per month till July this year.
A total of 5,385 burglaries, at an average of 448 per month, were reported in 2024, while 5,130 burglaries, at the rate of 427 per month, were reported last year. This year, the total number of burglaries was 3,232, at the rate of 461 per month, showing a slight increase.
When it comes to thefts, 16,031 cases were filed in 2024, at a monthly average of 1,335, and 14,557 theft cases, at the rate of 1,213, were recorded last year. The first seven months reported 8,945 thefts, at an average of 1,277.
The year 2024 recorded 452 rapes, at an average of 37 per month, and it came down to 32 per month in 2025 and 33 per month in the first seven months of this year. The number of rape cases, including attempt to rape, was 236 till July 2026 and 387 in 2025, showing the same trend in serious crimes against women in Tamil Nadu in the last two years.
The Pocso rape cases registered till July 2025 was 7,407, at the rate of 617 per month, and it stays at an average of 664 per month in the first seven months of this year.
The Pocso cases other than rape in 2025 was 2,406, at a monthly average of 200, while it was 1,843 in the first seven months of 2026, at an average of 263, recording a rise.
The total number of Pocso cases was 9,813, at the rate of 817 per month, and it was 6,491, at a monthly average of 927, till July this year. The cases under Pocso have been rising from 2022 and stood at 6,969 in 2024. In 2022, the Pocso cases were 4,968 and in 2023, the number was 4,581.
Another category of serious crime against women, kidnapping and abduction was only 71 till July, at a monthly average of 10, while it was 178 at the rate of 14 last year, showing a decline now. While 638 cases were filed in 2021 and 536, in 2022, only 290 cases were reported in 2023, which was a sharp fall in this category of crime in that year. Sexual harassment cases in 2023 were 53 and it was 58 in the previous year, showing a slight decline.
Chargesheeting in rape and attempted rape cases were high last year with 267 of 287 cases getting chargesheeted, while only 90 of the 236 rape cases had come to the chargesheet stage this year till July. In the total criminal cases against women, only 929 of the 2,867 crimes had been chargesheeted this year while 1,805 cases were under investigation. In the year 2025, a total of 1,857 of the 3,559 cases were chargesheeted last year and only 1,526 were under investigation till July 2026.
The number of rape and rape assault cases which have been chargesheeted crossed 50 per cent in 2024 and 2025, indicating police action against such cases and it is said police action would pick up in the second half of this year since a new government was in place and new police officials had taken over at several positions.
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