Haryana ranks third (next only to Kerala, Delhi) as regards crime rate across all states and union territories, says the recent report of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

What is crime rate?
Crime rate means the number of crime cases per lakh of population. Offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), special and local laws are taken into account for calculating the crime rate.

Haryana crime rate: Haryana recorded a crime rate of 802.9 (2.24 lakh cases), an increase of 57.1 per cent over the numbers for 2016.

Highest crime rate: Kerala recorded a crime rate of 1,818.4 in 2017 (1.84 lakh crime cases), while it was 1,107.1 in case of Delhi (2.44 lakh cases). 

Lowest crime rate: Nagaland had the lowest crime rate of 64.4

All-India crime rate: 388.6.