Figures from the Union Home ministry on custodial violence shows a sorry state of Gujarat, which stood second in the entire country in terms of deaths in Police custody this year.
Gujarat with 21 deaths in police custody is next only to Maharashtra, which reported 26 such deaths till November 15 this year.
According to figures from the Union home ministry, the country reported 151 deaths in police custody and Gujarat accounted for nearly 14%.
Bihar. which reported 18 deaths in police custody, and Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh with 11 deaths each, are better off than Gujarat.
Crime in India in 2020, a report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), also revealed that the number of custodial deaths in Gujarat was the highest in 2020. Fifteen persons, who were in police custody without remand, died in various districts of the state in 2020.