New Delhi (Sputnik) — New Delhi continues to be the most unsafe place in India for foreigners with 382 cases of crime against foreign nationals registered in 2016. The country's crime record keeping agency — NCRB — has revealed that at least 12 foreigners were murdered, 19 foreign nationals were raped and around 38 cases were reported under the section "assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty" in New Delhi. This accounted for forty percent of the total cases reported from across the country in the same period.
As the data suggests, 2016 recorded a slight increase in such cases as against 365 accounts of crime against foreigners recorded in 2015. In 2015 too, Delhi had ranked topmost in the list of most unsafe Indian destinations for foreigners. The figure is however 25% lower than the 486 registered cases in 2014.
In West Bengal alone, 520 cases were reported by foreign nationals, followed by 91 in Karnataka, 80 in Goa, 64 in Tamil Nadu and 56 in Maharashtra.
The data breakdown reveals that 66 foreigners were booked for cases related to narcotics, 59 in cheating cases, seven for murder and six on rape charges.
