-The Indian Express In Maharashtra, roughly every tenth person is Muslim, as opposed to almost every third inmate in its PRIsons. Muslims make up 15.8% of all convicts and 20.9% of all undertrials in jails across the country. This is higher than their share in the country’s population, which is 14.2%. But in some states, this gap is far wider. According to latest data on PRIsons by the National Crime Records Bureau...
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NHRC issues notices to MP's top bureaucrat, cops for SIMI men's killing
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The country’s human rights watchdog has issued notices to the Madhya Pradesh government and state police for the shooting of eight Islamist PRIsoners who had escaped from a Bhopal jail. The National Human Rights Commission sent notices the state’s chief secretary, director general of police, director general of PRIsons & inspector general of PRIsons for the killing alleged activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India. The men fled...
More »Over 55 per cent of undertrials Muslim, Dalit or tribal: NCRB -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express Muslims, Dalits and tribals together account for 39 per cent of India’s population, thus their share among undertrials is disproportionate to their population. New Delhi: OVER 55 per cent of undertrials across the country are either Muslims, Dalits or tribals, according to the National Crime Records Bureau’s PRIson data for 2015. According to the NCRB, over two-thirds of all jail inmates are undertrials. The data also shows that...
More »Feeding off the land -Anuradha Sengupta
-The Hindu Business Line An Odisha organisation is working hard to preserve traditional foods and prevent the mainstream from swallowing up local knowledge systems Inside a candy pink-and-yellow shamiana, a group of children in blue uniforms line up in front of stalls heaving with different kinds of foods. Tubers in shades of brown, beige and cream; pink and red berries; tiny yellow, orange and red tomatoes; leaves of many sizes and shapes;...
More »'Two-thirds of PRIsoners in India are undertrials' -Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu The ‘PRIson Statistics India 2015’ report was released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Monday. Here are five things the data tells us about the state of Indian PRIsons. The problem of overcrowding The report calls overcrowding as “one of the biggest problems faced by PRIson inmates.” It results in poor hygiene and lack of sleep among other problems. “Keeping in view the human rights of the PRIsoners, it...
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