India has acceded to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (ETS No. 112).

The Convention is primarily intended to facilitate the social rehabilitation of prisoners by giving foreigners convicted of a criminal offence the possibility of serving their sentences in their own countries. It is also rooted in humanitarian considerations, since difficulties in communication by reason of language barriers and the absence of contact with relatives may have detrimental effects on a person imprisoned in a foreign country.

This brings the total number of ratifications/accesions for this treaty up to 66.