NCRB ADSI
Definition
Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India, the annual statistical volume published by the National Crime Records Bureau under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The 2022 edition is the standard reference for Indian suicide and unnatural death counts cited in this topic.
- Full name
- Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India
- Published by
- National Crime Records Bureau, MHA
- Frequency
- Annual
- Reference edition
- 2022
Common questions
Why do forensic toxicology reports cite NCRB ADSI figures rather than hospital or coroner records directly?+
ADSI aggregates unnatural death and suicide data reported by police stations across the country into a single standardised national volume, making it the practical reference for national-level trend comparisons, since no equivalent centralised hospital or coroner dataset exists for India.
Does ADSI classify poisoning deaths by the specific substance involved?+
It breaks unnatural deaths and suicides down by broad method categories including poisoning, but the substance-level detail, such as which specific compound was involved, comes from the underlying FSL toxicology report rather than from the ADSI summary tables themselves.
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