D. Sriya Renuka, BBA LLB, Woxsen University ABSTRACT In India, there is currently a crisis happening within the country's Criminal Justice System that has remained unobserved by many people; a high number of the country's inmates are held in pretrial detention (also known as undertrials) without receiving a conviction for an offense. According to the report from Prison Statistics of India 2024, 72.61% of inmates are undertrial inmates; 9,028 inmates have been in preconviction detention for...