The Government of Friday said that out of 5,922 people arrested under the UAPA law from 2016 to 2019, only 132 were found guilty putting the conviction rate at 2.2 percent.
Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy shared the information in Rajya Sabha in response to a question. He informed the Upper House that as per the 2019 Crime in India Report compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the total number of persons arrested under the Act in 2019 is 1,948.
In another reply, he said that 96 people were arrested on charges of treason (sedition in the legal language) under Section 194A IPC in 2019 but only two were convicted and 29 persons were acquitted. Of the 93 sedition cases, a charge-sheet was filed in 40 cases in the same year.
Karnataka leads the list of states using UAPA with 22 cases, followed by Assam, Jammu Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh with 10 cases each. The question was asked about the religious/ethnic background of the arrested and convicted people, however, the Minister said the NCRB does not keep statistics related to religion and caste.