India, Oct. 24 -- India recorded 32,599 cases of rape in 2017, the Crime in India report released this week by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows. This the lowest number since 2013, the year after the brutal gang rape and murder of a young student in December 2012 in Delhi, shook the country. Rape cases saw a big jump in 2013 and many believed this was a result of better reporting in the aftermath of the protests. The 2017 Crime in India report also shows that rape conviction rates - cases convicted as a percentage of cases where trial was completed - in 2017 was 32.2%, the highest since at least 2001. (Chart 1)...