Srinagar, May 22: A rape case gets reported on an average daily in Jammu and Kashmir.
As per the Crime Department figures, the number of rape cases registered during the 2018 was 359 of which 273 had victims as minors.
Data shows that alone in the first three months of 2019, 64 cases of rape were registered in the state of which 33 had minors as victims of the heinous crime.
In 2014, 352 cases, 265 of which involved minors, were registered. In years 2015, 16 and 17, the 312 (251 minors), 263 (204 minors), and 314 (213 minors) cases were respectively registered.
The conviction rate in the last six years, the data shows, is as low as 5%.
