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India
Nagpur Central Jail authorities accept Dr. G. N. Saibaba demands
Nagpur: Today i.e. on 22nd Oct 2020, at 3:00 p.m. family members of Dr. G.N. Saibaba got a phone call from Nagpur Central Jail. Dr. Saibaba informed that the Additional…
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Delhi
Six prisoners infected with COVID-19 in Delhi jails: authorities
New Delhi: The jail authorities submitted before the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that six prisoners, who are lodged in several jails in the national capital, are currently infected with COVID-19. The submission…
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India
‘After 23 years in prison, I am in another jail’
By MAQBOOL MAJID Srinagar: Mirza Nisar Hussain, 40, a resident of downtown Srinagar, was acquitted of all charges and released from a jail in Rajasthan in July last year after…
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Crime and Accident
Maha: Man gets life imprisonment for killing woman
Thane: A court in Maharashtra’s Thane has sentenced a 37-year-old tribal man from neighbouring Palghar district to life imprisonment for killing a woman. In the order passed on Wednesday, district and…
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India
Allahabad High Court grants bail to Azam Khan, his wife, son
Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court has granted bail to Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, his wife Tanzeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam in a case of alleged forgery of Abdullah’s birth…
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Crime and Accident
Maharashtra: Four men sentenced to 20 years RI in gangrape case
Nagpur: A sessions court has sentenced four men to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined them Rs 55,000 each for raping a woman in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. District sessions…
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Hyderabad News
450 Indian workers trapped in Saudi Arabia jail rescued
Hyderabad: As many as 450 Indian workers who were trapped in a Saudi Arabian jail for the last four months because they couldn’t return home due to coronavirus lockdown were rescued…
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Crime and Accident
Mandoli Jail inmate commits suicide
New Delhi: A 26-year-old inmate of Mandoli Jail allegedly hanged himself in his barrack early on Friday morning, officials said. The deceased, identified as Salim, was an undertrial prisoner, the officials…
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Crime and Accident
Fake currency smuggler sentenced to 5 yrs in jail
Kolkata: A special NIA court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to five years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 14,000 on him for smuggling fake Indian currency notes,…
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Hyderabad News
Ignorance of law: How four Hyderabadis landed in Saudi Jail
Riyadh: Ignorance of Saudi law proved costly for four Hyderabadis, Mohammed Abdul Waheed, Moiz, Shaikh Bader and Hajra Begum. They were arrested in 2015 for involving in bringing prescribed medicine…
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Crime and Accident
Two prisoners escape from Raebareli district jail
Raebareli: Two prisoners managed to escape from Raebareli district jail here, police said on Tuesday. Sharda and Ranjeet lodged in the prison for theft and POCSO cases respectively were found missing…
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Pakistan
Indian national returns home after serving jail term in Pakistan
Lahore: An Indian national has been handed over to the Border Security Force at the Wagah border, two years after he completed his jail term on crossing into Pakistan “inadvertently”, officials…
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Top Stories
NCRB data shows Muslims, Dalits higher in jail than outside
New Delhi: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released data which reveals Muslims, Dalits and tribals remain to be higher in number in jails than outside. The 2019 data reveals,…
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Top Stories
Three years in, why Dr. Kafeel Khan is still in jail?
Sruthi Vibhavari Lucknow: On Monday (July 27), the Allahabad High Court will hear a fresh bail petition of Dr. Kafeel Khan, who is currently booked under the National Security Act (NSA)…
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India
36 inmates of Etah jail test positive for COVID-19
Etah: As many as 36 inmates of the district jail here have tested positive for COVID-19, an official said. Jailor, Kuldeep Singh Bhadauria, said that in view of the rising…
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India
Ex-prof Saibaba getting proper medical care in jail: HC told
Nagpur: The Maharashtra government on Friday opposed the bail plea of former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba in the Bombay High Court bench here, saying he is being given…
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Crime
Gurgaon police arrest Bhondsi jail official, drugs supplier
Chandigarh: Gurgaon police on Thursday said it has arrested two persons, including a jail official of the Bhondsi prison, and recovered some drugs and SIM cards that were allegedly meant…
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India
Over 44 pc inmates in Guwahati jail test COVID-19 positive
Guwahati: Over 44 per cent of the 984 prisoners in the Guwahati Central Jail, including peasant leader Akhil Gogoi and student activist Sharjeel Imam, have tested positive for COVID-19, a…
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India
Jailed activist Varavara Rao tests positive for COVID-19
Mumbai: Jailed poet and activist Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has tested positive for COVID-19, a hospital official said on Thursday. The 80-year-old, lodged in…
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World
Donald Trump commutes long-time aide’s jail sentence
Washington: US President Donald Trump commuted the jail sentence of long-time aide Roger Stone after the former campaign adviser was sentenced to three years and four months in prison in…
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India
Goa jail inmates being tested for COVID-19 as jailor found +ve
Panaji: The Goa government has started testing all the inmates of the central jail at Colvale for COVID-19, after a jailor was found infected, a senior health official has said.…
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Crime
Undertrial lodged in Balrampur district jail found dead inside toilet
Balrampur: A 30-year-old undertrial lodged in the district jail here was found dead inside a toilet on Wednesday morning, officials said. Jaipal, a resident of Tulsipur area who was lodged…
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India
8 inmates test COVID positive in Sabarmati Jail
Gandhinagar: A chance Covid testing in Guajarat’s Sabarmati Central Jail found at least eight inmates positive for the disease after an undertrial insisted on bail to be sent home. The Sabarmati…
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World
US violence: 1,400 arrests in 17 cities during protests
Los Angeles: Police have arrested nearly 1,400 people in 17 US cities as protests continue over the death of George Floyd. Floyd died on Monday in Minnesota after a police…
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World
Afghan govt releases another 900 Taliban inmates
Kabul: The Afghan government on Tuesday released another batch of 900 Taliban inmates in the latest move to further advance the intra-Afghan peace talks with the militant group, a spokesperson for…
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India
Mandoli Jail deputy superintendent tests COVID-19 positive
New Delhi: The deputy superintendent of the Mandoli Jail in northeast Delhi has tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Thursday. “The officer was on leave since May 11 as…
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India
COVID-19: Over 6,000 inmates given bail to trim count in TN jail
Chennai: There has never been overcrowding in jails in Tamil Nadu and over 6,000 inmates were granted bail recently to prevent coronavirus spread, bringing down the present strength to a…
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India
COVID-19: Assam releases over 3,550 inmates to decongest jails
Guwahati: Over 3,550 inmates, including 300 lodged in detention camps, have been released from jails across Assam since March to decongest the prisons in the wake of novel Coronavirus pandemic,…
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India
6,500 prisoners released from MP jails since COVID-19 outbreak
Bhopal: Nearly 6,500 prisoners have been released from jails in Madhya Pradesh since the coronavirus outbreak, an official said on Sunday. Of these prisoners, as many as 3,900 have been…
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India
UP prison admin starts random COVID-19 testing in jails
Lucknow: After the death of an inmate in Agra Central Jail due to COVID-19, the Uttar Pradesh Prison Administration and Reform Department has started random testing of samples for coronavirus…
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