An umpteen number of promises were made by the ruling party of the State to ensure protection for women and girl child of the state but all those announcements are just to say once and then forget forever. The recent report released by The National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs for 2007 revealed that Madhya Pradesh bags the 4th position in terms of total incidences of crimes against women and girls. A comparative analysis of crime has been done including 35 States and Union Territories in India. Also, the analysis of crimes in 35 mega cities has been included in the report.

During 2007, total 185312 incidents of crime against women (both under IPC and SLL) were reported in the country while the cases of crimes reported against women and were 164765 during the year 2006. It means that this year the rate of crime has increased to 16.3 from 14.7 during 2006. There has been a continuous increasing trend in the number of crimes against women from 2003 to 2007 with 140601 cases in 2003 and reaching 185312 in 2007. In Madhya Pradesh the total 15370 numbers of crime incidences have been recorded against women while Andhra Pradesh tops the list with 24738 number of crime cases against women followed by Uttar Pradesh (20993) and West Bengal (16544) respectively being at second and third positions.  

During the year, 3010 incidences of rape and 6772 of molestations against women accounting the highest numbers in nation were registered in Madhya Pradesh. Also, the state is at third slot in the cases of dowry deaths with 742 incidences of deaths due to dowry following after Uttar Pradesh (2076) and Bihar (1172). Moreover, the state accounts for 5.2 % of the total incidences under Child Marriage Restraint Act (1978). Other than these, procuration of minor girls in the State accounts for 6.32% and selling of girls for prostitution accounts for 2.9% out of the total nation’s data.

Among the cities of Madhya Pradesh, the commercial city Indore, the State capital Bhopal and Jabalpur were included in the list of 35 mega cities selected for crime analysis and it has been reported that Indore is at 15th rank with 597 total incidences of crimes against women. Also, Indore is at third place accounting for 74 numbers of rape cases. Bhopal and Jabalpur are at 19th and 20th positions with 436 and 374 number of total incidences of cri