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The Violent Crimes – Murder collection brings together a comprehensive set of datasets on murder cases recorded in India, compiled from the National Crime Records Bureau. The collection covers murder offences under the Indian Penal Code and presents data across multiple dimensions including year wise, state wise, city wise, and motive wise counts, along with chargesheeting rate and crime rate. It also includes detailed demographic profiles of murder victims classified by victim type, age group, and gender, enabling analysis of victimisation patterns across children, adults, and different age brackets. A key feature of this collection is its focus on motive based classification, covering causes such as personal vendetta, property disputes, dowry, honour killing, caste and communal violence, political reasons, gang rivalry, robbery or extortion, rape, kidnapping and abduction, terrorist or extremist violence, road rage, witchcraft, child or human sacrifice, psychopath or serial killings, blind murders where motive is unknown, and other causes. Together, these datasets provide a detailed view of the scale, intent, victim impact, regional variation, and prosecution outcomes of murder in India, supporting criminological research, public policy analysis, and law and order assessment.