Raj Express. The murder of famous Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in broad daylight a few days ago has created a sensation across the country. Along with this, the debate about the growing gun culture in Punjab has also increased everywhere. The hobby of keeping weapons is also increasing among the people and the news of gang war is also common. But the name of Punjab is not only involved in gun culture and gang war, because there are many states and cities in the country which even beat Punjab in terms of weapons. Let us tell you which state of the country has the highest crime rate.
First of all, let's talk about such districts and states where more people have weapons than Punjab and crime related to weapons is also more here.
Shahjahanpur :
Here during the year 2020, the number of cases related to weapons has reached 1570. Which is 364 percent more than Punjab.
Indore :
During the year 2020 in this city of Madhya Pradesh, the number of cases related to arms has reached 1556. Which is 361% more than Punjab.
Meerut :
The name of Meerut is also included in this list and the number of cases related to arms in the year 2020 is 1522. Which is 353 percent more than Punjab.
Bulandshahr :
Bulandshahr is also far ahead in terms of crime. In the year 2020, 1475 cases have been registered here. Which is 342 percent more than Punjab.
Ghaziabad :
In the year 2020, the number of cases related to arms has been seen here, 1334. Which is 309.5 percent more than Punjab.
Punjab :
Punjab, which is at the fore in the news, has registered only 431 cases during the year 2020, which is much less than the districts mentioned above. At the same time, Punjab is far behind in the matter of keeping arms. Let's understand how?
Madhya Pradesh :
The population of this state is about 7.26 crore and 14.1 lakh licensed guns are registered here.
Uttar Pradesh :
This state, the country's most populous state, has more than 13 lakh licensed weapons. That's about 650 guns per lakh person.
Delhi :
This figure of weapons in the country's capital Delhi is 9.4 lakh.
Jammu and Kashmir :
There are 4.85 lakh licensed drops per lakh persons in this beautiful state of the country.
Punjab :
State government figures show that the police here have 1,25,000 weapons. Whereas about 1.4 lakh people in the state's population have licensed weapons. These weapons also include modern weapons along with kattas and revolvers.