Tamil Nadu has topped the country in reporting grave crimes, particularly murder, against senior citizens. The State stood second after Maharashtra in reporting incidents of robbery and snatching targeting elders.
The National Crime Records Bureau statistics released late on Monday for 2017 revealed that 188 senior citizens were murdered in Tamil Nadu, followed by 152 in Maharashtra and 127 in Uttar Pradesh. As many as 62 senior citizens were victims of attempt-to-murder cases in Tamil Nadu, which is the second highest in the country after Maharashtra that reported 66 such cases. When it came to robbery, snatching and theft cases in which the victims were senior citizens, Tamil Nadu reported 685 cases, which is again the highest after Maharashtra.
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