‘Crime India’ Report

Subject – Governance

Context – 1.2 lakh deaths in road accidents in 2020: NCRB

Concept –

National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released the Crime in India Report 2020.
India recorded 1.2 lakh cases of “deaths due to negligence relating to road accidents” in 2020, with 328 persons losing their lives every day on average, despite the COVID-19 lockdown, according to government data.
As many as 3.92 lakh lives were lost in three years in deaths due to negligence related to road accidents.
On average, there were 112 cases of “hit and run” reported across the country every day in the past year, according to the data.
During 2020, India logged 133 cases of “deaths due to medical negligence”.

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