Crime is complex. Its dimensions are more so. Poverty, neglect, low self-esteem, alcohol, drug abuse and circumstances into which one is born, they all influence and the list can be endless. However, no crime can be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life itself is complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behaviour, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause. If crime is proven, the status changes to that of a criminal. But is there any logic in branding someone a criminal until his crime is proven? Does it justify incarceration as an undertrial? How long can one remain as an undertrial? If he or she is exonerated later, who could possibly restore the lost pride and the lost personality? That it happens in case of more than 67% of 4.33 lakh inmates lodged in 1,400 jails in the country is most unfortunate. They are rarely produced in court, sometimes for want of police escort and scarcely given legal aid The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) prison statistics, 2016 released in 2019 further reports that almost 2000 children have to perforce live in these jails with their mothers who are undertrials. Are these children then deductive undertrials or are children of lesser gods?