A person who is being held in custody awaiting trial for a crime.
the constables guarding the undertrials were taken by surprise
Example sentencesExamples
- All prisoners are not criminals and many in prison are undertrials.
- The prisoners housed in this sub-jail are undertrials mainly serving time for distilling and selling illicit arrack.
- 74 per cent of our total prisoners are undertrials.
- They do not disqualify an undertrial from contesting elections; it only bars a person in jail from voting.