The top court made it clear that prisoners are being released in an attempt to avoid overcrowding in jails due to the pandemic, also called COVID-19.
Host nation Russia beat Saudi Arabia 5-0 at the opening match of the World Cup on Thursday, exactly mirroring the scoreline of a match played on a dirt pitch in a jail in Africa thousands of miles away.
The callousness with which these political dissidents are being treated goes against the Supreme Court's directive, given right at the beginning of the lockdown. The apex court had directed states to release prisoners to decongest jails, which had become hotspots of the coronavirus.
A jail official was suspended after the incident, in which police have seized a number of mobile phones, CDs and a huge amount of money.
The Jail authorities on Wednesday allotted the qaidi ticket (convict number) to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief, a highly placed jail official told UNI.
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The Madras high court on Monday took strong objections to the violent incidents in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi district on Sunday, and directed the state police chief to constitute a special investigation team (SIT) to identify the rioters and take stern action against them.
'I was told to go to the next room and strip -- that's when it really hits you for the first time... that you are a criminal and you are being treated like one.' 'It comes as a shock when, instead of your name, you hear, "Yeh naya Maowadi aaya hai (A new Maoist has arrived)".'
The Bombay high court on Thursday said the Union government's allocation of Amphotericin-B, a key drug used in the treatment of mucormycosis or black fungus, appeared to be irrational, and the supply to Maharashtra was not adequate considering the number of cases in the state.
'I worked closely with Mother for decades, not once did she say become a Christian.'
The visits come against the backdrop of complaints from the Khan camp that Akhilesh Yadav has been 'ignoring' the party veteran and the Muslim community, though it backed the SP in the recent assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.
At least a dozen people, including the jailer and deputy jailer, were on Wednesday injured at a jail in Meerut in a clash between prisoners and officials. Police had to resort to firing to bring the situation under control. Along with police officials, personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary and Rapid Action Force were also present on the spot.
Since 2013, the 'Prison Inside Me' facility in northeast Hongcheon has hosted more than 2,000 inmates, many of them stressed office workers and students.
The government is considering a recommendation to amend the Representation of People's Act to grant voting right to some 3.5 lakh prisoners lodged in jails across the country. The Home Ministry is in touch with the Law Ministry and other concerned authorities to make necessary amendments in the law.
Modi is subject to two sets of criminal proceedings, the first brought by the CBI relating to a large-scale fraud said to have been committed upon PNB and the ED case, relating to the laundering of the proceeds of that fraud.
The jail houses only hardcore criminals and one of the grouses of the prisoners is that petty criminals are also lodged in the facility, jail sources said.
The jail authorities have, however, said 'the death seems to be due to natural causes.'
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The main rail and road routes in Andhra Pradesh, connecting the south and east, remained cut off as the Penna river in spate caused heavy destruction on Sunday.
It is not destiny, but the Pakistan government which claimed the life of Sarabjit Singh, according to a resident of Ahmednagar, who spent time with him in Lahore jail, and was released last year.
Indrani, who is lodged in the Byculla prison, is among the 200 inmates against whom a case was on Sunday registered for rioting, unlawful assembly, assault on public servant and other relevant sections under the Indian Penal Code, a police official said.
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The Madras high court bench in Madurai on Monday directed transferring the probe into the death by suicide of a 17-year-old girl, allegedly coerced to convert to Christianity, to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Fifty years ago today, December 25, 1972, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of the titans of India's freedom struggle, passed into the ages. Kalki Krishnamurthy, who penned the Tamil classic Ponniyin Selvan among numerous other novels, describes his first glimpse of the man who would become an august national leader and his cherished role model.
'The fact that all the charges against my son are baseless and concocted, in itself, gives me all the hope.'
Violence broke out on Sunday near Kallakurichi as protesters demanding justice over the death of a girl student went on a rampage setting fire to vehicles and indulged in stone pelting, in which police personnel also became the target.
Expressing serious concern over their prolonged imprisonment, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to release and repatriate within four weeks 61 Pakistani nationals languishing in jails in India despite having undergone their punishment for various offences.
The disgraced Hollywood mogul was recently shifted to high security Wende Correctional Facility from Rikers Island prison to spend his jail term.
The activities at the shelter home came to the fore when a girl managed to flee from there.
We got the same Diwali bonuses. We ate together. We carried equipment together on shoots. And when the odd reporter tried to throw her weight around and leave the camera person to carry bags of equipment, cables, the camera and tripod down the stairs and to the shoot location, Prannoy would step in, take the tripod off the shoulders of the colleague silently, lightening the load, recalls Revati Laul.
Like other inmates, he will also have access to the prison's library and can watch television for a specified period.
At least 52 inmates were killed in a Mexican prison brawl on Thursday, as prisoners fought with bats, sticks and blades and ignited a fire in the overcrowded penitentiary.
The Supreme Court of India on Monday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the death by suicide of a 17-year-old girl in Thanjavur, who was allegedly coerced to convert to Christianity.
'Badle ki bhavna (revengeful politics) was never seen in Maharashtra and Indian politics, but now we are witnessing all that today.'
Murray Denis Ward, 54, allegedly inappropriately touched the three NAB inmates on September 2, the police said.
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The court dismissed the last-ditch appeal by his mother, saying Dharmalingam has been given "due process in accordance with the law".
'Is it not deplorable that even after 75 years of independence, there are people in our society who have been denied freedom?'
Indrani also claimed that she was threatened of sexual assault after the death of a convict sparked protest in the prison.
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