Who publishes this site
Women on Record is published by PinPoint Ventures, a development research and evaluation practice. The research is by Vinitha Joseph, Nivedita Biswas, Tarushaa Miittal and Varna. Write to info@pinpointventures.in about anything on the site.
What the figures are
The crime figures are taken from the National Crime Records Bureau's Crime in India, for 2014 to 2024. The other figures come from the eight public sources named on the Context page, each with its document, table and page. Women on Record is not published by NCRB, by any ministry or by any government.
NCRB counts the cases that police recorded. That is a smaller number than the crimes that took place, and a higher figure in one state can come from more crime or from more recording. Every count on this site was checked against the totals printed in its source, and the Data and method page says how. The figures can still contain errors. Before relying on one, check it against the source that page names. Nothing on this site is legal advice.
The Protests page reports events of September 2026 as named news outlets reported them, with a link to each report. Women on Record has not confirmed those reports independently.
Corrections and complaints
If a figure is wrong, a source is misread, or anything on the site concerns you, write to info@pinpointventures.in. We acknowledge every message within 24 hours and reply in substance within 15 days. A correction is made on the page itself.
If you believe something on the site is unlawful, identifies a person who must not be identified, or infringes your rights, write to the same address with the address of the page and the reason. We will look at it within the same times and remove or correct the material where the complaint is right.
What this site never publishes
No survivor of a sexual offence is named, pictured or described anywhere on this site, and no detail is given that could identify her. Section 72 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (section 228A of the Indian Penal Code before 1 July 2024) makes it an offence to print or publish the name or any matter that may make known the identity of such a person. Section 23 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and section 74 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 forbid the same for children. The Supreme Court held in Nipun Saxena v Union of India (11 December 2018) that the bar extends to disclosing, even remotely, any fact from which her identity could become known.
The site holds counts only. The Context page counts legislators who declared pending cases of crimes against women in their election affidavits, as the Association for Democratic Reforms reported them, and names none of them. A declared case is pending and is not a conviction.
Using what is here
- The compilation, codes, notes, charts and tables written for this site may be reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Credit "Women on Record, PinPoint Ventures" and link to the page you used.
- The site's code is published under the MIT licence at github.com/Varnasr/WomenOnRecord.
- Official data keeps the terms of whoever published it. That includes NCRB's reports, the National Family Health Survey, the National Commission for Women's figures, the Bureau of Police Research and Development's data, answers given in Parliament, and the National Judicial Data Grid. ADR's reports are ADR's.
- The state map is DataMeet's, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and follows India's official boundary.
- News reports linked from the Protests page belong to their publishers. The site links to them and does not reproduce them.
- The IBM Plex and Noto typefaces are used under the SIL Open Font License.
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Last updated 9 October 2026.