Summary:
Agra: As many as 376 foreign nationals are currently lodged in jails of Uttar Pradesh. The next is Bahraich district jail with 38 undertrial and 13 convicted foreign nationals; Bajrampur has 19, Varanasi 34, Lucknow 18, Lakhimpur Kheri 15 and Gautam Buddh Nagar has 20 foreign prisoners. Of these, 137 have been convicted whereas 239 are undertrials, an RTI query has revealed. It is also possible that they are misled into the world of crime by some local racket which is using them. According to prison authorities, the majority of foreigners were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act or section 420 (cheating and dishonesty) of the Indian Penal Code..