Tihar report shows link between poverty, crime

The prison, managed by the Delhi government, houses some of the city’s richest and poorest residents across its 400-acre complex.

Here, homeless prisoners arrested for petty thefts share space with corporate leaders — including real-estate barons Ajay Chandra and Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Ltd, who have been in the complex since May, 2017.

The report, submitted to the state home department last month, further says that more than half the prisoners did not have regular jobs at the time of their arrest. According to the data, 8,079 (52.2%) either did not