Pakistan, Feb. 3 -- The heinous crime rate in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) has decreased by 31 per cent, as the capital police registered over 5,000 cases in the last three months, compared to more than 7,000 cases in preceding period, Daily Times has reliably learnt.

As per available documents, heinous crime index in recent three months was lower than crime status of last year in this span of time. "During this period, a total of 5,428 cases of heinous crimes have been reported as compare to report of 7,907 cases last year," reads the document.

Overall, the documents disclosed, as many as 24,387 suspects, involved in different crimes, were arrested by the capital police during past one year. The operations division arrested 24...