Edited sentence: As per as 2011 census of India, it was found that 172.2 million Muslims we're living in India as it's citizens, constituting 14.2% of the country's population.As per as Zakir Naik, he claimed that India has over 250-300 million Muslims.As per as author Shakir Lakhani, there should be at least 90 million Indian Muslims who have not been registered by the Indian authorities during last census.As per as recent estimation of year (2020) Indian religious demography by Pew research center, it has been found that 213.34 million Muslims are living in India constituting 15.4% of the country's population.But however, at a same time, many individuals and experts have said that the Muslim population in India is more then the expected census results, leading to a heated debate and controversies as their claim of being that estimation as truth is still not known today.Controversy of Muslim population in India.He also told that the government of India suppress real Muslim population.There should have been about 262 million Muslims in 2011 census, instead of 172.2 million as reported by census authority earlier.This means that in 2011, there were at least 22 Muslims out of every 100 Indians