Women Prisoners in India – Overview
Abstract
Over 3 lakh women were arrested for crimes under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Special and Local Laws (SLL). A large number of these women werearrested for crimes under the Prohibition Act, for cruelty by relatives of husband and rioting etc. By observing combined figures of both convicted and undertrialprisoners we see that at 37%, a large proportion of women are in prison for murder, followed by 15% women who are incarcerated for dowry deaths. The overall number of crimes by women has been relatively consistent over the past decade or so. There is a relatively consistent pattern over the last 15 years,with the number of women arrested for various offences remaining between 3-3.6 lakh. While this number is relatively large, only a proportion of arrested womenare incarcerated in prison, either following conviction or under trial.
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