The Bihar government on Monday (Dec 22, 2025) said the state has witnessed a decline in serious criminal cases of murder, mischief and rioting as compared to last year due to better and more efficient policing.
“The number of murder cases decreased by 7.72%, dacoity cases by 24.87% and rioting cases by 17.97% as compared to last year due to prompt action by the police,” said Additional Principal Secretary, Home Ministry, Arvind Kumar Chaudhary, adding that the decline in major crimes was significant.
According to Director General of Police Vinay Kumar, swift police response and strict vigilance led to the arrest of 3.35 million persons between January 2025 and November 2025 in major criminal cases. In addition, police seized 4,528 firearms and 28,414 rounds of ammunition during the same period.
A better intelligence gathering mechanism has led to a gradual reduction in incidents of communal tension, he said.
Mr. Chaudhary addressed the media in Patna accompanied by DGP Mr. Vinay Kumar, Additional Director General (ADG) (Law and Order) Pankaj Kumar Darad, Secretary and Inspector General (IG) (Prisons) Pranav Kumar and Special Secretary KS Anupam.
Mr. Chaudhary said that Maoist-related violence has not been reported in the state for the last 3-4 years and said that the number of districts infested by leftist Maoists has reduced to zero. The number of Maoist infested districts used to be 22 in 2013 but now the number of these districts was zero due to anti-Maoist operations in the state.
Now there were only four districts of Gaya Ji, Aurangabad, Jamui and Lakhisarai, which the Center had designated as “legacy and coercion” districts due to the decline in cases of Maoist violence, he added.
Cybercrime Control Unit
The DGP said that in order to give special emphasis to the growing cyber incidents, a separate cyber crime control vertical has been set up, which would be headed by an ADG police officer.
A total of 24.38,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cyber report complaints have been received on the National Cyber Reporting Platform (NCRP) help portal till 15 December 2025.
A district prosecution office has been set up in each district, Mr. Kumar said, adding that Bihar has become the first state to start “trial in absentia” after the introduction of the new BNS (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita) and BNSS (Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita) criminal laws.
A total of 2,99,927 pending cases were disposed of in 2025, the DGP said, adding that 1,43,878 accused were convicted in 1,05,291 cases.
“Four convicts were given death sentence, 1,097 life imprisonment, 533 more than 10 years imprisonment, 1,410 less than 10 years and more than two years imprisonment, while 1,37,983 convicts were given fine/imprisonment,” Kumar said.
The DGP said that Bihar has become the first state to convict accused persons in connection with the Sidhwalia PS 232/2024 case in Gopalganj district within 15 days of the trial.
“The exam was completed in a record time, earlier the record for fastest exam completion was 48 days,” Mr. Kumar said.
Radio services have been started in all prisons of the state, IG (Prisons) Mr. Pranav Kumar said, adding that a system will be installed in 15 prisons at a cost of ₹26 crore to prevent and control misuse of mobile phones inside the prisons.
Modern visiting rooms were being constructed in all the jails where visitors could meet the inmates, he said, adding that more than 50% of the work had been completed.
Published – 22 Dec 2025 21:09 IST
