Mumbai: Crime on railway premises in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) has doubled in 2022 as compared to 2021. However, the Government Railway Police (GRP) officers claimed that the number of crimes in 2021 was low as there were Covid-19 restrictions enforced that year.
According to the statistics provided by GRP, last year, 13,799 crimes were reported, as compared to 6,720 cases registered in 2021. The GRP officers claimed that in the pre-pandemic years like in 2019, around 16,948 criminal cases were registered.
The GRP data also revealed that out of 13,799 total FIRs registered in 2022, 12,589 cases were of thefts while 588 cases were of robbery.
