prison statistics india 2011 - National Crime Records Bureau

under Special and Local Laws as compared
to 1,91,990 undertrial prisoners for
committing IPC crimes. Thus the number of
undertrial prisoners under SLL was 20.2%
of total undertrial prisoners under IPC
offences and SLL offences combined. The
highest number of undertrial prisoners
(11,779) was reported under NDPS Act
which accounted for 24.2% of the total
undertrial prisoners under SLL. This was
followed by Arms Act (18.6%) and Excise
Act (12.0%). Uttar Pradesh has reported
the highest number of undertrials (3,596)
under NDPS Act which accounted for
30.5% of the total undertrial prisoners under
NDPS Act in the country. The percentage
share of undertrial prisoners reported
under Protection of Civil Rights Act was
the lowest (74) at 0.15%. The details may
be seen in Table-4.4.
Comparison of Convict and Undertrial
prisoners of 2011 with that of previous
year (2010)
The convict prisoners have
increased by 2.2% in 2011 over 2010 as
the number of convicts (1,25,789) lodged
in various jails of the country at the end
of 2010 rose to 1,28,592 at the end of
2011. Seven States out of 28 States having
share of 5.0% crimes or more out of total
IPC crimes in the country as per “Crime
in India 2011” report, have reported
decline in convict population during the year
2011. These States were Bihar (13.1%),
Kerala (12.3%), Andhra Pradesh (3.3%),
Tamil Nadu (2.5%), Maharashtra (2.3%),
West Bengal (2.0%) and Rajasthan (1.2%).
Only four major States reported increase in
convicted inmates population by 9.4%,
7.6%, 5.7% and 3.0% in Madhya Pradesh,
Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat
respectively during 2011. Delhi has
reported 16.6% increase in convicted
prisoners during same period among the
UTs having considerable number of
convicted prisoners. The number of
undertrial prisoners has also increased
marginally by 0.5% in 2011 (2,41,200)
over 2010 (2,40,098). Tamil Nadu is the
only State in the country which
considered remand prisoners as a
separate category from undertrial
prisoners. They had supplied the data till
2006 on these lines. However, from 2007,
like other States, they included data of
remand prisoners with that of undertrial
prisoners. Hence, the number of
undertrial prisoners from 2007 increased
considerably. Seven States having share
of 5.0% of total IPC crime in the country
based on “Crime in India 2011” report
have reported decline in the undertrial
inmate population. These States were West
Bengal (18.2%), Karnataka (5.6%), Bihar
(3.9%), Kerala and Uttar Pradesh (3.2%
each), Gujarat (3.1%) and Tamil Nadu
(0.2%). Three major States, namely
Andhra Pradesh (11.7%), Rajasthan
(8.9%) and Madhya Pradesh (1.1%) have
reported increase in undertrial inmates
population in the year 2011 over 2010.
Maharashtra is the only major State where
undertrials in 2010 (16,065) and 2011
(16,064) remained almost same and
showed no variation. Delhi has reported an
increase of 11.1% in the undertrial
prisoners in 2011 over 2010. The details
may be seen in Table-4(A).
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