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NCRB data collection in prisons can go on, SC clarifies in caste bias matterThe Supreme Court clarified that its order to remove caste details from jail records won't affect data collection by the National Crime Rec...- In just two months, 5.56 lakh FIRs registered under new criminal lawsSince July 1, over 5.56 lakh FIRs have been registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita across India. The Ministry of Home Affairs has int...
- New criminal laws may help reduce jail overcrowdingThe new criminal laws, known as BNSS, aim to address jail overcrowding by offering leniency to first-time offenders. Bail conditions have b...
- States, UTs told not to segregate prisoners on caste, class or religionThe Union Home Ministry has urged states and Union Territories to stop segregating prisoners based on caste and religion and stop assigning...
- Gujarat records highest number of custodial deaths three times in a rowAccording to the NCRB report, 14 people (who were not on remand) died in police custody/ lock-up in 2022 compared to three deaths recorded ...
- Tamil Nadu, Telangana record most preventive detentions in 2021, according to NCRBAccording to NCRB, a detenu is any person detained in prison on the orders of the competent authority under the relevant preventive laws su...
- Majority undertrials from poorer sections, shows NCRB dataWhile the number of convicts from SCs, STs and OBCs stood at 89,802, those under trial stood at 283,535, with the highest number in Uttar P...
- 70 pc of foreign prisoners in India under-trials: Govt dataThe recently released annual 'Prison Statistics India 2020' of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows there were 4,926 foreigners l...
- 4.83 lakh Indians in jail up to 2020-end, less than one-fourth convicts: dataAs many as 4.83 lakh Indian nationals were lodged across the country's jails by end of 2020, of which over 76 per cent were undertrials whi...
- Over 400 death row prisoners in Indian jails till 2020: DataOut of 29 convicts whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, 24.1 per cent (seven) were reported from Maharashtra followed by...
- Number of prisons fall while inmate count rises 1.5%: ReportThe number of prisons at the national level has decreased by 3.3% from 1,351 in 2019 to 1,306 in 2020 while the number of inmates lodged in...
- Jailed foreigners to get access to diplomatic mission only on written requestPrisons fall in the state list but states inform the external affairs ministry on arrest, detention and request for consular access of a fo...
- Union home ministry asks prisons to screen foreign inmates, use videoconferencing for kinMore than 466,084 persons are lodged in 1,318 prisons across India, according to the 2018 report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB...
- Bengal gave nod for 2 detention camps on MHA model, now Mamata says noWest Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee may have taken a stand against detention centres in her state, but her government approved the building of a...
- MHA plan to check radicals: high security prison in each state, UTThe National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in a recent report on prisons, said jails in several states are overcrowded. “Studies of prisons ...
- Centre will discuss about sharing Aadhaar data with police for crime detection: MoS Hansraj AhirThe Minister was responding to a specific suggestion made by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Director Ish Kumar at the event that limi...
- Prisons across the country make Rs 200 crore of goods a yearThe value of goods produced by jail inmates was Rs 201.8 crore, according to a report by NCRB, which is a 33 per cent jump from Rs 151.8 cr...
- Death penalty files ‘lost, eaten by termites’The missing files are not only a serious lapse on part of prison authorities but has also hampered an ongoing attempt to study all death ro...
- More Muslims in Maharashtra and Bengal prisons than Gujarat56.7 % of prisoners in UP, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bengal jails belong to the Muslim community.
- Indian prisons overcrowded by over one lakhPrisons across the country are bursting at the seams having to lodge about 1.10 lakh convicts and undertrials more than their capacity, wit...
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