NCRB: Year-wise Court disposal of cases of fake/false news and rumours registered under Section 505 of IPC

The dataset contains the overall conviction rate and pendency percentage of cases of fake/false news and rumours registered under Section 505 of IPC as recorded by states in the National Crime Record Bureau's annual Crime in India report. NCRB started publishing data on this since 2017. This is helpful in tracking the courts' disposal of cases. Conviction rate is defined as the share of convicted cases out of the total cases in which the trial was complete in a particular year. The pendency percentage is the share of cases pending trial at the end of the year as against the total cases for trial.