NEW DELHI: To curb organised crime in the national capital, the Delhi government plans to shift “hardened and notorious” prisoners to jails in other states. According to the Chief Minister Office (CMO), the government identified 188 members of 26 gangs in May 2026, arresting 107 of them.
Despite being jailed, these “hardened criminals” exploit prison welfare facilities and local networks to run extortion rings, orchestrate targeted killings, trigger gang wars and expand alliances. Moving them outside Delhi aims to isolate them, preventing them from influencing witnesses, disrupting trials or conspiring from behind bars.
A plan has been chalked out in this regard to transfer undertrial gangsters, organised criminals and other high-risk prisoners lodged in the capital’s jails to prisons in other states, if required. For this, the government will implement the Transfer of Prisoners (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2025, in Delhi.
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said the move aims to enable the inter-state transfer of such prisoners in the interest of prison security, law and order and public interest, while strengthening cooperation among states in tackling organised crime.
Under the proposal, undertrial gangsters, organised criminals and other high-risk prisoners can be transferred from one state to another with mutual consent.
