prison statistics india 2011 - National Crime Records Bureau

91.6% undertrial prisoners were found
belonging to the same State/UT as per
domicile based classification. Some
States/UTs have reported considerable
figures of undertrial prisoners belonging to
other States/UTs. In absolute number,
Maharashtra has reported the highest
number of undertrials (2,785) belonging to
other States followed by Delhi (2,399),
Gujarat (1,639), Uttar Pradesh (1,471) and
Haryana (1,169). West Bengal has reported
the highest number of undertrial prisoners
(1,049) belonging to foreign countries
followed by Maharashtra (678), A&N Islands
(589) and Delhi (292). In percentage terms
Andaman & Nicobar Islands has reported the
highest 83.7% (589 out of 704) undertrial
prisoners belonging to foreign countries.
Relevant details may be seen in Table 5.2.
Detenues
Analysis on the basis of educational
qualification showed that 711 out of 2,450
detenues were illiterate and 985 were
educated below class X th standard. These
two categories accounted for 29.0% and
40.2% respectively, which taken together
constitute 69.2% of total detenues.
Others
333 out of the 684 unspecified
prisoners were illiterate and 229 were
educated below class X th . These two
categories accounted for 48.7% and 33.5%
respectively, which taken together constitute
82.2% of total of such inmates.
Classification of this category of
prisoners on the basis of religion reveals
that 57.5% (393 out of 684) adhered to Hindu
religion while 37.1% (254 out of 684) were
from Muslim community. The analysis of the
prisoners on the basis of caste shows that
the highest (70.0%) belongs to General
category (479 out of 684) followed by 12.7%
(87 out of 684) belongs to Scheduled Castes
and 11.0% (75 out of 684) belongs to OBC
category. 6.3% (43 out of 684) of the total
such inmates were from Scheduled Tribes.
Domicile based analysis showed that
57.9% of other prisoners belonged to the
same State/UT. Only West Bengal (265) had
such inmates belonging to other countries.
Relevant details may be seen in Table 5.4.
Classification of detenues on the
basis of religion reveals that 60.6% (1,485
out of 2,450) adhered to Hindu religion while
26.5% (650) and 10.4% (254) were belonged
to Muslim and Christian community
respectively. The rest adhered to other
religions. The analysis of the detenues on
the basis of caste shows that about 42.5%
(1,042 out of 2,450) and 25.3% (619 out of
2,450) belonged to the OBC and General
categories respectively. 21.9% (536 out of
2,450) detenues were from Scheduled
Castes while 10.3% (253 out of 2,450) were
from Scheduled Tribes.
Analysis of detenues on the basis of
domicile shows that 92.8% (2,274 out of
2,450) detenues belonged to the same
State/UT. Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir,
Nagaland and Uttar Pradesh reported 15, 7,
7 and 4 detenues belonging to other States
respectively representing in their prisons.
Jammu & Kashmir reported 42.7% (102 out
of 239 detenues) detenues belonging to other
countries in its jails. Relevant details may be
seen in Table 5.3.
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