New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has informed the Parliament that almost five persons died daily in custody in India during the financial year 2019-2020.
Data shared by the Ministry with Parliament on Tuesday showed the total number of people killed either in police custody or jails between 1 April, 2019 and 31 March, 2020 stood at 1,697.
The maximum number of deaths in judicial custody at 400 was reported from Uttar Pradesh and most police custody deaths at 14 were reported from Madhya Pradesh.
Out of the total 1,697 custody deaths, MHA said 1,584 and 113 died in judicial and police custody, respectively. Tamilnadu and Gujarat recorded 12 deaths each in police custody.