A large scale campaign for elimination of violence against women over the decades delivers the enormity of increasing incidence of crime against women in India. Women safety and security has become the biggest concerns of the country right now. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the crime rate against women shows an increasing trend. During the year 2018, the number of cases registered against women in India was 3, 78,277 which increased at a rate of 5.12 percent from the year 2017. Crime against women to the overall crime rate in India was stood at 7.5 percent in the year 2018. Despite a mushrooming policies and programmes proposed towards eliminating violence against women, the expected outcomes did not reveal in the statistics. This forms as a major impediment to women empowerment. Thus, the paper tries to analyze the current trends of crime against women at various crime heads in India from 1990-2018.

Keywords: Crime, Women, Violence, National Crime Records Bureau, Empowerment.