Retired IPS officer Kiran Bedi on Thursday said the lowering crime graph in the country's many states merely reflects the increasing non-registration of criminal cases and launched a website for the common man to tackle this 'unjust' treatment at the police's hands.

"Whatever the various states' police tell you, the fact remains that several erimes go unreported just because the police refuse to register them," said Bedi, while launching the website, www.saferindia.com. All complaints lodged on this website would be forwarded to police chiefs of the respective states.

Bedi's announcement came a day after the Delhi police made public the city's annual 'lowering' crime graph. Bedi pointed out her observations about nonregistration of cases weren't restricted to a particular city.

Delhi's crime records, however, did get a mention during the website's launch. The panelists said close to 11.5 lakh calls were made to the Delhi's Police Control Room in 2007. The actual number of criminal cases regis- tered stood at just 55,244, a decline of 1881 from 2006.

"People don't call up the police to tell them about their power or water woes. The cases registered are far disproportionate to the number of calls received," said Dr Arvind Verma, retired IPS and a professor at Indiana University, US.