Over a third of crimes against foreigners in Delhi

NEW DELHI: Delhi is noticeable for both crimes against foreigners as well as crimes committed by foreigners. In 2017, crime data for which was released by NCRB on Monday, over one-third of the crimes against foreigners in India took place in the capital. Conversely, Delhi was third in terms of crimes committed by foreigners.
Of the 492 cases where foreigners were crime victims, Delhi accounted for 169.The capital was followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, which registered 61 and 43 cases, respectively. Places like Andaman Islands, Tripura, Puducherry, Daman & Diu and Jammu & Kashmir did not report a single crime against foreigners.
There has been a constant rise in such crime in Delhi since 2015, when 147 cases were reported, rising to 154 in 2016. Most of these pertain to theft, cheating, forgery and robbery.
Delhi also registered 173 cases of foreigners committing crimes, behind West Bengal and Karnataka. Most of the foreign nationals arrested were Bangladeshis, who were involved in 2,725 crimes, while 193 were from Nepal, 162 from Sri Lanka and 70 from Pakistan.
The cops rescued seven trafficked Nepalese and one Bangladeshi among the total of 404 rescued while being trafficked in and out of Delhi.