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  • noun India, law One who is currently on trial or who is imprisoned on remand whilst awaiting trial.

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Examples

  • Sri Aurobindo too goes to police custody and would spend a year in the Alipur Jail as an undertrial.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • So also, the cell in Alipur Jail where Sri Aurobindo was lodged for a year as an undertrial.

    The birth-place of Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Here it is the human race that is the undertrial, and it is a defendant with a rotten record: a history-sheeter, a bad egg.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • MUMBAI: "Does Kasab also wear a uniform?" the Bombay high court on Tuesday posed this question while hearing a petition filed by Thane Central Jail inmate Dhanesh Shivaasan, who claimed that prison authorities had refused to exempt him from wearing the uniform despite the fact that he was an undertrial.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Shivaasan, a murder accused, has been an undertrial since 2006.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Gloom in the house of murdered Punjab students in Australia phone by an undertrial top HUJI militant, Jammu zone Inspector General of Police Ashok Gupta

    Kashmir contemplating plan to develop dry, arid regions 2010

  • Gloom in the house of murdered Punjab students in Australia phone by an undertrial top HUJI militant, Jammu zone Inspector General of Police Ashok Gupta

    Kashmir contemplating plan to develop dry, arid regions 2010

  • Shivaasan, a murder accused, has been an undertrial since 2006.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Gloom in the house of murdered Punjab students in Australia phone by an undertrial top HUJI militant, Jammu zone Inspector General of Police Ashok Gupta

    Kashmir contemplating plan to develop dry, arid regions 2010

  • MUMBAI: "Does Kasab also wear a uniform?" the Bombay high court on Tuesday posed this question while hearing a petition filed by Thane Central Jail inmate Dhanesh Shivaasan, who claimed that prison authorities had refused to exempt him from wearing the uniform despite the fact that he was an undertrial.

    The Times of India 2010

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