Plans for a 500-car road show were abandoned after the controversy surrounding his release.
Sudhakar Badgujar, the leader in question, denied the allegations while speaking at a news conference in Nashik.
'During my tenure, I have even seen influential people asking for sexual favour and availing it. Sodomy is common inside Tihar and the powerful people get such favours from inmates either mutually or with the help of jail officials'
The former state Congress chief was jailed on May 20 last year after being sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court over the death of the 65-year-old Gurnam Singh in a road rage case in 1988.
Guntu Kaaram doesn't deliver on its basic promise: Entertainment, sighs Mayur Sanap.
Director general of police Dilbag Singh described it as an "extremely unfortunate" incident and said a manhunt had been launched to nab his domestic help identified as Jasir, who is absconding.
'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated. They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.'
At least three Israelis were killed and six others injured when Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in Jerusalem, breaking an uneasy peace in the city since the outbreak of the current round of violence in the region.
A legislator on Wednesday created a flutter in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly by telling Home Minister R R Patil that he could "break into" Pune's Yerwada Jail for Rs five lakh.
They say we became 'Congresswasi'. We didn't become 'Bhajapawasi' even after spending 30 years with the BJP. Then how can we become 'Congresswasi'?
Retired high court judge Justice Pandey will probe all aspects related to how SIMI activists escaped from the high security jail and the encounter that took place after that
'I was wondering whether I would ever come out alive.'
Mateen, who was killed by police after his attack on Pulse nightclub, was removed from the Florida Department of Correction's Criminal Justice Training Institute on April 27, 2007, for sleeping in class and making "extremely disturbing" comments about weapons.
A Russian court sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia, a ruling that President Joe Biden called "unacceptable."
What will a split in the AIADMK mean for Tamil Nadu?
The eight terrorists had escaped from the Central Jail in Bhopal in the wee hours, killing a security guard and scaling the prison wall with the help of bed sheets, following which some officials responsible for jail security have been suspended.
Big Girls Don't Cry is too solemn to be fun and too timid to be truly bold, feels Deepa Gahlot.
'We were sure our appeal would succeed. We knew we could break down the evidence and show it was hollow.'
A joint bench of justices Sapana Pradhan Malla and Tilak Prasad Shrestha ordered to free 78-year-old Sobhraj from jail, according to Supreme Court sources.
It was lovely to enjoy the magical atmosphere of celebrating the spectacular accomplishments of extraordinary men and women who had enriched the world of sciences, literature and peace, notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan after attending last week's Nobel Prize awards ceremony.
The captain was held responsible for the ship running aground, killing 32 people.
'Chaotic prison breaks, mission misadventure gone horribly wrong, eye-popping surprises, zingers and zany action keeps viewers joyously glued to their chairs,' says Sukanya Verma.
Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his brother Said, 34, accused of carrying out the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, managed to slip under the radar despite them being on counterterrorism agencies' radar for years before Wednesday's attack.
'The nylon noose was around his neck; a suicide note was in his hands.'
It took a five-day hunger strike by the former Delhi University professor, in jail without a break for five years after being convicted of links with Maoists, for the jail administration to agree to his request for a water bottle.
As Ae Watan Mere Watan and Swatantra Veer Savarkar release this week, Utkarsh Mishra takes us down history and reminds us about India's freedom struggle.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favorite 2023 films -- a healthy blend of Bollywood, Hindi indies and some of the best work that is being done in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali cinema.
Activist Gautam Navlakha, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has been shifted to the 'Anda Circle' (high-security barracks) in the Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai, his partner Sahba Husain said on Sunday and claimed the 70-year-old's already fragile health has deteriorated further due to shifting.
Subhash K Jha picks his favourite films of 2023 from south India.
A video of the incident which occurred at around 6:25 AM shows a cow darting towards the road when it was hit by the vehicle carrying Ahmed. The cow fell near the road divider. After the incident, the vehicle stopped for a while before resuming the onward journey.
Arjun Menon looks at some Tamil films from the last decade that tick all the right boxes, and lists where you can watch them.
The Pandays aka The Travelling Family are making a trip around the world. Three days spent in the Amazon were unforgettable.
Notorious criminal and serial rapist Jaishankar, who made a sensational escape from the high-security central prison in Bangalore on September 1, was arrested in Bangalore on Friday.
If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair.
Authorities on Monday removed four senior officials over the escape of 384 prisoners in a jailbreak in Pakistan's restive northwest and launched a probe to find out whether militants who attacked the prison had any link to the Taliban siege in Afghanistan.
Jehanabad: Of Love And War authentically captures Bihar's political skullduggery and caste violence, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'It was a machinery of death. A large number of Hindus were first converted and then persecuted from 1560 all the way to 1812!' says novelist Richard Zimler.
Terror group People's Anti-Fascist Front claimed responsibility for his murder.
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)'s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut walked out of Mumbai's Arthur Road jail on Wednesday evening, hours after a special court granted him bail in a money laundering case.
Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, walked out of the Arthur Road prison, after 22 days in the central Mumbai facility following his arrest during a drug raid on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.
