{"id":152366,"date":"2021-12-10T19:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=152366"},"modified":"2021-12-10T19:43:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:13:03","slug":"across-india-minorities-are-overrepresented-in-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/across-india-minorities-are-overrepresented-in-jails\/","title":{"rendered":"Across India, minorities are overrepresented in jails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-crime-records-bureau-ncrb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)<\/a> reports show that in almost all the states of the Indian Union, irrespective of the party holding office, religious minorities are over-represented in jail.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What do the NCRB Report data shows?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Muslims are (and were) over-represented among jail inmates in almost all the Hindu-majority states. For example, In <strong>Assam<\/strong>, Muslims, according to the 2011 census, are 34% of the population and they represent 43 to 47.5% of the \u201cundertrials\u201d. In <strong>Gujarat<\/strong>, Muslims are 10% of the population and since 2017, they have been about 25-27% of the \u201cundertrials.<\/p>\n<p>The only major state where Muslims have been under-represented among the \u201cundertrials\u201d is Bihar, where Muslims are 17% and they represent 15% of the undertrials.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Hindus are overrepresented in states where they are in the minority. eg In <strong>J&amp;K\u00a0<\/strong>Hindus are 28.5% of the population and represent 34-39.5% of undertrials and 42.5-50.5% are convicts.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Why the situation is alarming?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In almost every state, the minorities are over-represented in jail and the majorities are under-represented, irrespective of the ideology of the ruling party. This is a clear indication of the communalisation of the police that tends to prevail.<\/p>\n<p>This problem can be solved by the recruitment and promotion of policemen from minority communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>Across India, minorities are overrepresented in jails&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>published in the\u00a0<strong>Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>10th December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0\u00a0National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports show that in almost all the states of the Indian Union, irrespective of the party holding office, religious minorities are over-represented in jail. What do the NCRB Report data shows? Muslims are (and were) over-represented among jail inmates in almost all the Hindu-majority states. For example, In Assam, Muslims,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/across-india-minorities-are-overrepresented-in-jails\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Across India, minorities are overrepresented in jails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[263,10500],"class_list":["post-152366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700811196,"cached_date":1704901742},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}