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Delhi has second highest parole jumpers in country
Hindustan Times
|October 18, 2025
The national Capital currently has 167 criminals who have jumped parole from 1990 until now — second highest in the list of 36 states and union territories in the country —after Gujarat, which has 1,187 such cases, as per the latest data on the National Prisons Information Portal.
The portal is maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. As per the new data, Madhya Pradesh is third on the list, with 108 parole jumpers, followed by 99 in Maharashtra. Data shows Delhi's neighbouring states — Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab —have reported fewer than 10 parole jumpers each.
Further, the data revealed that Delhi has a total of 19,993 inmates in all prisons while Gujarat has 18,805 inmates. Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh has 43,234 and Maharashtra has 40,497 inmates.
Officials said atleast 75% of inmates are undertrials and the remaining convicts.
This story is from the October 18, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times.
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