India's crime statistics are usually read as a ranking of which states are dangerous. They are not very good at that. What they are good at is describing the machinery. Of the cases a state did register, they show how many reached a chargesheet, how many trials ended in a conviction, and how much is still waiting.
Why this page does not rank states by crime. A registered case requires someone to go to a police station and someone there to write it down. Where reporting is easier and policing more responsive, more crime is recorded, so a state with a high count may be a state where the system works. Counts of registered crime measure reporting at least as much as they measure crime, which is why every chart here is about outcomes instead.
The chargesheeting rate is cases charge-sheeted as a share of cases the police disposed of during the year. A case that goes nowhere is closed with a final report instead: untraced, insufficient evidence, or found to be false.
Convictions as a share of trials completed during the year, which is how NCRB defines the conviction rate. It is not the share of reported cases that end in a conviction, because most cases are still pending. Those appear in the next panel instead.
Cases still pending at the end of the year, as a percentage of everything the stage had to deal with. Pending cases carry over, so a state can charge-sheet everything it received this year and still show a high figure from an older backlog.
The same two rates, for all six categories, nationally. This is the comparison the page exists for, because the machinery does not treat every kind of case alike.