A total of 1,470 Bangladeshi convicts are languishing in different jails in India, revealed the latest report compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)-Prison Statistics India 2019.
Among the foreign undertrials, the highest number of foreign undertrials were from Bangladesh (35%, 1,043 undertrials) followed by Nigeria (23%,686 undertrials) and Nepal (17.4%, 517 undertrials) at the end of 2019.
West Bengal has also reported the highest number of foreign undertrials lodged in their jails (19.3%, 576) followed by Maharashtra (15.6%, 466) and Delhi (12.9%, 384) at the end of 2019.