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What do police statistics hide (and what do they reveal) about crime in India?
Rukmini S
· Dec 02, 2021 · 08:30 am
How TV scriptwriter Sanjeev Paliwal has revived Hindi crime fiction with ‘Naina’ and ‘Pishach’
Maneesha Taneja
· Nov 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Watch: Missing Australian four-year-old girl Cleo Smith reunited with family after 18 days
Scroll Staff
· Nov 03, 2021 · 08:13 pm
Opinion: Judging Indian police performance by just the crime statistics is a blunder
Shailesh Gandhi
· Oct 30, 2021 · 09:00 am
Why 7.5 lakh police cases are closed every year in India for ‘lack of evidence’
Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com
· Oct 28, 2021 · 01:30 pm
Watch: The shooting inside a courtroom in Rohini in Delhi was caught on camera by a bystander
Scroll Staff
· Sep 24, 2021 · 04:04 pm
Chennai college student stabbed to death near railway station
Scroll Staff
· Sep 24, 2021 · 10:31 am
Five of the best new crime novels to read this autumn (and one golden oldie)
Alec Charles, The Conversation
· Sep 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘Murder on the Menu’: The story of Saravana Bhavan founder Pitchai Rajagopal’s tryst with murder
Nirupama Subramanian
· Sep 20, 2021 · 08:30 am
Crime and the single, independent woman: This novel asks uncomfortable questions
Madhumita Bhattacharyya
· Sep 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Caught on camera: Armed criminals rob hardware shop at gunpoint in Delhi’s Khera Khurd area
Scroll Staff
· Sep 05, 2021 · 02:20 pm
Watch: Woman police constable grievously injured after attack by male harasser in Lucknow
Scroll Staff
· Aug 30, 2021 · 11:20 am
How the decades-old Japanese honkaku murder mysteries are making a comeback in English translation
Arunima Mazumdar
· Aug 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Caught on car camera: Man throws hammer at driver’s windshield in road rage incident
Scroll Staff
· Aug 14, 2021 · 12:13 pm
Caught on camera: Car thief dodges police, drives stolen Land Rover on train tracks in England
Scroll Staff
· Jul 18, 2021 · 06:07 pm
Watch: Undercover police officers arrest wanted criminal with weapon at Ahmedabad eatery
Scroll Staff
· Jul 02, 2021 · 05:35 pm
Watch: This man won’t stop eating fried chicken as armed robbery takes place in restaurant
Scroll Staff
· Jul 01, 2021 · 11:30 am
Watch: Shoplifter steals from Walgreens store with people filming him, escapes in plain sight
Scroll Staff
· Jun 19, 2021 · 04:34 pm
‘The Khan’: A successful London lawyer runs into her murdered father’s crime syndicate in this novel
Saima Mir
· Jun 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘Girls talk to boys on phones, run away with them’: UP Women’s Commission member on phones and rape
Scroll Staff
· Jun 10, 2021 · 02:27 pm
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