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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 32% of undertrials jailed in Maharashtra are Muslims -Prafulla Marpakwar

32% of undertrials jailed in Maharashtra are Muslims -Prafulla Marpakwar

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published Published on Apr 23, 2015   modified Modified on Apr 23, 2015
-The Times of India

MUMBAI: A disproportionately high number of undertrial prisoners in Maharashtra are Muslims. Data compiled by the Union home ministry reveals that while Muslims comprise about 12% of the state's total population, they make up nearly 32% of the undertrial population in prisons. Similarly, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes form 12% and 9% of Maharashtra's population, but they account for 18.15% and 18.34% of the undertrial population.

NCP's Rajya Sabha member Vandana Chavan, a former mayor of Pune, had sought information relating to undertrials: on whether the government proposed to free them, how many were detained for more than half the prescribed period of imprisonment, the number who were eligible for release under section 436-A of the Criminal Procedure Code, and the sectarian breakup of undertrials languishing in Indian jails.

Union minister of state for home Haribhai Chaudhary informed Chavan that of the 27,400 inmates in Maharashtra jails (as of December 31, 2013), 19,331 were undertrials. Nationally, of the 4,11,992 prisoners inmates, 2,78,503 were undertrials.

As per the statement submitted in Parliament, after Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, Maharashtra had the maximum number of Muslim undertrials in prisons. The state had 6,182 Muslims, 3,509 from scheduled castes and 3,545 from scheduled tribes among its overall undertrial population behind bars. In Uttar Pradesh, 15,477 of 58,100 undertrials were Muslims and in West Bengal, the figure was 7,730 out of 16,471.

Chaudhary said the Centre had initiated several steps in respect of undertrial prisoners to reduce overcrowding in prisons. An advisory was issued on January 17, 2013 to state chief secretaries regarding use of Section 436A of the Criminal Procedure Code to reduce overcrowding of prisons. The said section pertains to the maximum period for which an undertrial prisoner can be detained. It provides that if an undertrial has been in jail for a period which amounts to half of the maximum imprisonment specified for that offence, then he can be released by the court on a personal bond with or without sureties.

On September 3, 2014, Union home minister Rajnath Singh wrote to all the chief ministers on the same issue. In addition, all the state directors-general of prisons have been asked to take necessary action as per the apex court order. An advisory was issued on September 27, 2014 to the state chief secretaries on determining half-life of time spent in judicial custody by undertrial prisoners under law.


The Times of India, 23 April, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/32-of-undertrials-jailed-in-Maharashtra-are-Muslims/articleshow/47021166.cms


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