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A brief national comparison between cases disposed of by the police force in India and cases disposed of by the Indian courts is shown below. The tables displayed are from the National Crime Statistic Bureau's Annual Report 2005, due to space limitations some crime headings have been left out in the tables below.

Cases disposed off by police

During 2005 no cases were withdrawn by the government in the case of murder, 0.1% of the cases were not investigated, 1.8% was found to be false, 59.5% of the cases were completed and the charge sheet was submitted, 84.7% of the 59.5% were submitted to court and 40.4% were pending for further investigation.

In the case of kidnapping and abduction 0.1% was withdrawn by the government, 11.1% of the charges were found false or mistaken of fact, 56.8% of the cases of investigation were completed and 77.0% were submitted to the courts while 42.9% were pending further investigation.

The crime with the highest percentage of withdrawn investigation in the abstracted table  was the crime of kidnapping and abduction (0.2%); this crime also had the highest percentage of the charge found false or mistaken of fact (11.1%). The crime with the highest final report submitted (in percentage) was the crime of theft (40.7%) and the case with the highest percentage of charge sheets submitted was the crime of sexual harassment (87.1%). The percentage of cases which were pending investigation in the end of the year, importation of girls represented the highest percentage (72%) and sexual harassment the lowest (10.1%).

In a 44 year time period the total cases that were investigated have risen from 586 279 to 1 793 835. In 1961 53.6% were charge sheeted while in 2005 the number of charge sheeted 42 cases had risen to 80.7% as shown in table 12b below. This indicates that despite the huge increase of crime investigation, the police force is managing to charge sheet 80% of the cases.