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prison statistics india 2011 - National Crime Records Bureau

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Murder alone accounted for 58.0% (64,954 out of 1,11,987) of the total Convicts under<br />

IPC <strong>Crime</strong>s. The highest percentage of Murder Convicts was reported from Uttar Pradesh<br />

(18.3%) followed by Madhya Pradesh (16.1%) of the total Murder convicts at the end of<br />

the year <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

25.3% (1,777 out of 7,027) of conviction relates to rape cases reported from Uttar Pradesh.<br />

The highest percentage (26.9%) (51,695 out of 1,91,990) of undertrials were charged with<br />

Murder. Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number (8,595) of such Undertrials (16.6%)<br />

followed by Madhya Pradesh 4,776 (9.2%).<br />

Period of Detention<br />

Maximum number of undertrials was detained for up to 3 months (40.1%)<br />

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1,486 Undertrials (0.6% of total undertrials) were detained in jails for more than 5 years at<br />

the end of the year <strong>2011</strong>. Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of such undertrials (340)<br />

followed by Bihar (252).<br />

13,73,823 undertrials were released during the year <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

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477 Convicts including 12 females lodged in different jails of the country at the end of the<br />

year <strong>2011</strong> were awarded capital punishment.<br />

68,935 Convicts including 2,736 women accounting for 53.6% of total Convicts in the<br />

country were undergoing sentences for Life Im<strong>prison</strong>ment at the end of the year <strong>2011</strong><br />

followed by sentence for 10-13 years (11.7%) at the end of the year <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

117 <strong>prison</strong>ers were awarded death sentence during <strong>2011</strong> while 42 death sentence were<br />

commuted to Life Im<strong>prison</strong>ment. However, no execution took place during the year <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

A total of 2,17,818 convicts were released during the year <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

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10,542 Convicts were repeat/recidivists which accounted for 4.7% of total convicts<br />

admitted during the year.<br />

Demographic particulars of inmates<br />

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Out of 1,28,592 convicted inmates 1,18,996 belong to the same State, 7,576 inmates<br />

belong to other States and 2,020 inmates belong to other countries.<br />

Out of 1,28,592 convicted inmates, majority of inmates are either illiterate (37,912) or<br />

education below class X (57,098).<br />

The highest number of Graduate (1,425) and Post Graduate (405) convicts were reported<br />

from Uttar Pradesh at the end of the year <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

Out of 2,41,200 undertrials inmate, 74,203 were illiterates, 1,02,852 were educated below<br />

Class X, 48,644 having education of above Class X & below graduation, 10,698 were<br />

graduates and 3,154 were post graduates.<br />

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