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By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: Even as the overall crime rate in Hyderabad city has registered a 3 per cent drop in 2019, cases of dowry deaths, outraging modesty of women have been gone up by 11 and 21 per cent respectively.The cases of rioting, robberies, crime against women have no significant change between 2018 and 2019. However, crime against women witnessed a slight increase with 2,305 cases reported this year as against 2,286 in 2018. The reports indicated that the overall crime rate has been gone down by three per cent in the city. He attributed the decrease in crime rate to measures including initiation of Preventive Detention (PD) Act, continuous criminal tracking system, intensive patrolling of patrol cars and blue colts, undertaking regular search operations. Over 1,400 cyber crime cases were registered in the city this year..