Over Represented Religious Minorities in Indian Prisons

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released its report titled as Prison Statistics in India 2020.

Findings of the Report related to Minority Communities

The report shows that the minority communities are over represented in Indian prisons. Muslims, Sikhs, as well as Dalits (Scheduled Castes) and Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) are disproportionately over represented in comparison to their share in the population.

• Muslims: Muslims made up 19.6 per cent of under trials, and constituted 17.4 percent out of all the persons convicted, while the Muslim community constituted only 14.2% of total population.
• Sikhs: They were 3.5 per cent of the total undertrials, ....