KOLKATA: More than one-third of foreign prisoners in India are lodged in different jails across Bengal, the higest in the country. According to recent data released by the National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 1,746 foreign inmates are lodged in Bengal jails.
However, the total number of inmates in 2021 was marginally lesser than 2020 when 1,982 foreign inmates were lodged in Bengal jails. Bengal is followed by Delhi (659), Uttar Pradesh (589) and Maharashtra (542) accounting for 31.4%, 11.8%, 10.6% and 9.7% of the total inmates. A total of 5,565 foreign inmates - consisting of 4,646 males, 906 females and 13 transgenders - were confined in various Indian jails at the end of 2021.