New Delhi:Rajya Sabha today said, as many as 82,190 Muslim prisoners are trapped in unlike jails athwart the country by the end of 2014.

Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary(Minister of State for Home)said, “as per data compiled by National Crime Records Bureau, at the end of 2014, there were 82,190 Muslim prisoners of which 21,550 were convicts, 59,550 were undertrials, 658 detainees and 432 other prisoners”

He replying to a written question,"As per data compiled by NCRB for 2014, the percentage of convicted Muslim prisoners to the total convicted prisoners was 16.38 per cent and the percentage of Muslim undertrial prisoners to the total undertrial prisoners was 21.05 %,"