Sandeep Thakur whisked Sher Singh Rana out of the high security jail by posing as a constable of the Delhi police.
The potential employees are prisoners in Tihar jail, who have received vocational and professional training while serving their terms.
The Tihar jail authorities were directed on Thursday by a Delhi court to provide dedicated computers to sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and seven others, arrested for allegedly committing irregularities in a games-related contract to a Swiss firm, to read their case documents.
Besides the national capital, polling for the sixth round of the marathon seven-phase elections will be held Saturday in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 seats of Haryana, eight seats each in Bihar and West Bengal, six seats in Odisha, four seats in Jharkhand and one seat in Jammu and Kashmir.
Former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar was sent to Tihar jail by a Delhi court on Sunday in the alleged fake degree case after police said that it does not require his custody for now.
'The Opposition will continue to be attacked through misuse of agencies, civil society will be force-marched towards extinction and India's plummeting on global indices will continue.' 'Minorities and especially Muslims will continue to have open season declared on them. Institutions will continue their decline,' predicts Aakar Patel.
Kejriwal has described his arrest by the ED ahead of the general election as an "unprecedented assault on the tenets of democracy" and urged the apex court to release him by declaring the case against him as "illegal".
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani and Arun Jaitley on Wednesday visited Tihar jail to meet Sudheendra Kulkarni and former party members of Parliament lodged at the jail in connection with the cash-for-vote scam.
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In a late night breakthrough in the deadlock between Anna Hazare and Delhi police over the duration of his anti-corruption protest, the Gandhian accepted the offer for 14 days of hunger strike beginning on Thursday at the Ramlila Maidan.
While the Aam Aadmi Party is contesting on four seats, the Congress has fielded candidates for the remaining three seats.
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The bench has divided the hearing on Kejriwal's petition against his arrest into two parts. His main petition challenges his arrest by the ED and seeks it to be declared as illegal, while the second aspect pertains to grant of interim bail keeping in mind the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. The court has reserved the order on the issue of grant of interim bail.
Delhi gangrape accused Ram Singh's alleged suicide in the high security Tihar jail, which houses over 12,000 prisoners, is the third such incident in the last 15 months.
Tihar, with its hard-to-manage prison population, had always posed a formidable challenge to authorities until a ray of hope was sighted while Kiran Bedi was at the helm of affairs.
Tihar Prisons authorities have now decided to keep the cells unlocked for 12 hours in a day and carry out a monthly check of the special diet given to sick prisoners.
For the second time in one month, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday arrived at Tihar Jail to pay a visit to his daughter Kanimozhi.
As investigators struggled for a breakthrough eight days after the twin blasts, two suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives, who had allegedly recced the area of the attack, were brought here from Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday and grilled by the National Investigation Agency sleuths.
In a poor village of daily wage earners in Siwan, Bihar, people speak about their hard lives and why they vote.
"You are 74 years old and no 56!!! can stop you," Karti wrote to his father as he wished him on his birthday.
In a fresh affidavit filed in the top court, the ED said no political leader has ever been granted interim bail for campaigning even if he is not contesting polls.
The RJD has fielded six women candidates, some of them are wives of bahubalis.
Neelam Katara on Wednesday moved the Delhi high court against the Tihar Jail authority's decision to shift convicts Vikas and Vishal Yadav, undergoing life sentence in New Delhi for killing her son Nitish in 2002, to a prison in Uttar Pradesh, their home state.
Jail officials, group to thrash out finer details to enable late night skype with Los Angeles-based buyers.
Man Singh (58), a head warden, died on Tuesday night at his quarters inside the jail. He had been under treatment for tuberculosis for the last several years, prison officials said.
The Department of Delhi Prisons has suspended four officials, including a deputy superintendent, in connection with the physical appearance of jailed Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik in Supreme Court, a statement said on Saturday.
Jailed Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, who is undergoing treatment at New Delhi government-run hospital, had suffered a blood clot due to a head injury, though his condition is stable, sources said on Friday.
The body of Afzal Guru will be buried inside the premises of Tihar Jail, according to sources in the Delhi police. There is a provision in the jail manual to permit family members of a death row convict to get possession of his body and perform the funeral secretively.
Parliament attack death row convict Afzal Guru has approached the Delhi government seeking his transfer from the Tihar jail in New Delhi to a prison in his home state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Two days after getting bail from the Supreme Court in the 2G case, former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura was on Friday released from the Tihar jail after a lapse of over 15 months since his arrest.
Roy met 3 potential buyers for an hour amid tight security.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, which continued hearing on the Kejriwal's plea challenging his arrest for the consecutive day, posed several queries to Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, appearing for the ED, and sought his reply on Friday.
One of the four accused in the brutal rape of a young paramedical student was on Thursday identified by the victim's friend during a Test Identification Parade at Tihar jail in Delhi. The 23-year-old victim's male friend, an engineer in a software company, identified Mukesh during the TIP, a senior police official said. Eleven people were paraded before the victim's friend during the TIP which started at 3.05 pm and ended in a hour.
The Jail authorities on Wednesday allotted the qaidi ticket (convict number) to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief, a highly placed jail official told UNI.
'The present case is a classic case of how the ruling party led central government has misused the central agency- Enforcement Directorate and its wide powers under PMLA to crush its biggest political opponent -Aam Aadmi Party and its leaders'
Socialite Bina Ramani, charged with destruction of evidence after the murder of Jessica Lal in her restaurant and an accused in a cheating-cum-forgery case, on Saturday walked to freedom after spending nine days in custody.
A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta told Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, appearing for the Enforcement Directorate, that the hearing on Kejriwal's plea against arrest is likely to take time and therefore, the court was considering hearing the probe agency on interim bail to him.
The district police said they were apprehended from Goa in a joint operation by the Haryana Police and the Delhi Police.
Justifying his arrest, the ED said Kejriwal had been arrested bona fide and not for any mala fide or extraneous reasons.
Besides Defence Minister Singh (Lucknow), Minister of Women and Child Development Irani (Amethi), those in the fray are Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishor (Mohanlalganj) and Minister of State of Consumer Affairs Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (Fatehpur).
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