Rising Crimes, Cover Story 20 March 2023

Rising Crimes 

News Kashmir Analysis 

The rising crime rate in Jammu and Kashmir is a serious matter of concern. Such crimes are happening that were unheard in the history of Kashmir.

The brutal Budgam Soibug Murder has rocked entire Kashmir . This has brought to fore the utmost brutality in some minds who committ humanity ravaging crimes.

Recently, the officials  told the Kashmir News Service (KNS), that the girl was missing from last four days in Soibugh village of Budgam district. The 45-year-old man identified as Shabir Ahmad Wani son of Abdul Aziz Wani, a resident of Mohanpora Ompora, a carpenter by profession killed a 30-year-old girl of Soibug at his home in Mohanpora Ompora, he said.

He chopped off her head, sliced the body into pieces and dumped the same at different spots in Budgam, they said .

During questioning, the man has revealed that he has murdered the girl and cut her body into pieces and disposed off at different locations i,e Railway bridge Ompora and Sebden, where from her head and other parts of body were recovered last night, Police said.

The accused person has been arrested, all the body parts were recovered from location.

Last year it was known that 

overall crime graph in Jammu and Kashmir increased by 24.6 per cent in 2021 as compared to the previous year, while the cases of violent crimes declined marginally, the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) said in its latest report.

The overall crime graph in Jammu and Kashmir increased by 24.6 per cent in 2021 as compared to the previous year, while the cases of violent crimes declined marginally, the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) said .

Expert pulse is also stating that increase in thr heinous crimes especially in the valley of Kashmir over the past few years is the direct result of moral degradation in the society, as youth have lost pulse with the morality and society pulse . Moral degradation has reached optimum levels which needs to be reined in.

The need of the hour is to do a introspection in the society so as to arrest the rising rate of crimes in the society.