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The Uttar Pradesh government's claim comes amid outrage and protests over the death and alleged forced cremation of a Dalit woman in Hathras.
Facial recognition software and simple crowdsourcing for information can be used to identify people at protests.
The annual crime data for 2017 was released after a delay of more than a year.
The report with data from 2017, released after a delay of over a year, showed that Uttar Pradesh was the worst when it came to violence against women.
The government wants to use automated facial recognition technology to track criminals, identify suspects, or find missing persons. Here’s why it should think twice before it does so.
Since the Modi govt hasn’t been releasing NCRB data since 2016, the home ministry’s numbers are based only on cases registered by the NHRC.
Speedy trials can help politicians trot out statistics that generate shock value. But this may set a dangerous precedent.