Chennai, April 24 -- There has been a remarkable decline in murder rates in Tamil Nadu, the office of the Director General of Police said on Thursday.

Due to systematic, proactive and preventive measures against the rowdy and other anti-social elements have yielded good results in terms of remarkable reduction in the revenge and rowdy murders in Tamil Nadu.

Tamil Nadu has witnessed a significant reduction in bodily offences, including murders, hurt cases, and riots, in the year 2024 compared to the year 2023, due to various preventive and proactive measures undertaken by the police.

Further, analysis of the long term trend in the murders reported indicated that during 2017-2020, murder cases increased gradually every year and peake...