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Acquitted	1,163,450		[1st of 30]
Assaults	236,313		[5th of 49]
Burglaries	111,296		[10th of 38]
Convicted	604,547		[6th of 34]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	24.98 %		[2nd of 39]
Frauds	41,403		[12th of 48]
Illicit drugs world's largest producer of licit opium for the pharmaceutical trade, but an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets; transit point for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries and throughout Southwest Asia; illicit producer of methaqualone; vulnerable to narcotics money laundering through the hawala system; licit ketamine and precursor production
Manslaughters	3,912		[3rd of 42]
Murders	37,170		[1st of 49]
Police	1,032,960		[1st of 47]
Prisoners	313,635 prisoners		[4th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	3%		[92nd of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita	29 per 100,000 people		[153rd of 164]
Rapes	15,468		[5th of 50]
Robberies	28,411		[13th of 47]
Software piracy rate	69%		[43rd of 107]
Total crimes	1,764,630		[10th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation; internal forced labor may constitute India's largest trafficking problem; men, women, and children are held in debt bondage and face forced labor working in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories; women and girls are trafficked within the country for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage; children are subjected to forced labor as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers, and have been used as armed combatants by some terrorist and insurgent groups; India is also a destination for women and girls from Nepal and Bangladesh trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation; Indian women are trafficked to the Middle East for commercial sexual exploitation; men and women from Bangladesh and Nepal are trafficked through India for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation in the Middle East
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - India is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fifth consecutive year for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking in 2007; despite the reported extent of the trafficking crisis in India, government authorities made uneven efforts to prosecute traffickers and protect trafficking victims; government authorities continued to rescue victims of commercial sexual exploitation and forced child labor and child armed combatants, and began to show progress in law enforcement against these forms of trafficking; a critical challenge overall is the lack of punishment for traffickers, effectively resulting in impunity for acts of human trafficking; India has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	6.1		[78th of 143]

Interesting facts on Indian Crime

• India’s criminal courts acquitted over a million defendants in 1999, more than the next 48 surveyed countries combined.

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