'Karishma and I are old friends and I love her as my friend. She has a boyfriend so whatever I said in the house was just in good humour.' Upen Patel, quite the charmer in the Bigg Boss house, explains his closeness with fellow inmate Karishma Tanna to Rajul Hegde/Rediff.com.
The prison constable from Yerwada Jail was part of a 20-member team that oversaw hanging of the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict
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The Bollywood actor followed the same drill meant for other prisoners.
Mohammed Nasheed, sentenced to 13 years in jail under anti-terrorism laws, will have a furnished air-conditioned prison.
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Officials clarified that all inmates had the permission to smoke.
'People accused of mass murder and worse are let out on medical grounds.' 'Saibaba is now 100% handicapped, and has committed no murder, yet he is not allowed to come out.'
The counsel for Sanjeev Nanda, convicted by a Delhi court in the 1999 BMW hit-and-run case, on Wednesday sought his release on probation, highlighting the good work done by him in Tihar jail by conducting English and computer classes for inmates.At the end of the arguments of sentence, the court put off the pronouncement of sentence till September 5.
"It wasn't the right place to discuss what Arya Babbar said on camera so I let it go. However, I will speak to him about it when he comes out of the house." Minissha Lamba, the latest evictee, shares her Bigg Boss 8 experience.
Simultaneous raids on different jails across the length and breadth of Uttar Pradesh made shocking revelations.
Official sources in Siwan jail said that some of the inmates were injured in the violent clash, but the situation was brought to normal.
The Tihar jail authorities expect the network, which will carry gas to jail kitchens, to be laid out by April and this will cost about Rs 60 lakh, Director General (Prisons) B K Gupta told reporters. "LPG cylinders are widely used by prisoners during riots in jails and we want to avoid such incidents," he said. During the January 7 jail riots in a Jalandhar prison, the inmates threw LPG cylinders into the fire but luckily, these did not explode.
Cutting across party lines, chief ministers and others leaders urged the people to follow the self-imposed curfew from 7 am to 9 pm, noting that "social distancing" was key to breaking the chain of infection, as the number of coronavirus cases rose to 283 after 60 new cases were detected on Saturday, the highest so far in a day, and states like Maharashtra, Odisha and Bihar imposed partial lockdown till month end.
Bhopal Mukhiya of JAK Rifles, who is posted at Uri, was taken into custody after two hand grenades were recovered from his possession during search at the main gate of the airport
Names of CMs of Punjab and Karnataka along with a former CM found mention in the list.
Jama Masjid in Hyderpora area has turned into a major relief centre for those affected by the devastating floods in the Kashmir valley, housing hundreds of people, including women and children.
David Hicks, an Australian citizen, had allegedly fired hundreds of bullets on Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir in the year 2000.
Actor Sanjay Dutt was released from Pune's Yeravada jail on Thursday morning. Dutt's lawyer Satish Maneshinde visited Yeravada jail at around 8.30 am with the relevant papers and delivered them to the jail authorities. He was accompanied by Dutt's former secretary Pankaj Kharbanda. The actor was released at approximately 9.50 am and he is likely to take a chartered flight back to Mumbai. Dutt sentenced to six years imprisonment under the Arms Act.
The authorities were so concerned about his ability to radicalize other prisoners that he was moved out of the high-security prison and was transferred to Frankland jail, Durham.
The relatives have decided to continue the efforts to locate their kins.
The external affairs minister, a JNU alumnus, condemned the attack on the university campus. He said it's completely against the culture and tradition of the university.
The 26/11 handler has demanded to be shifted from 'anda' cell to a normal prison.
Four militants of the banned outfit United Liberation Front of Assom were killed in a joint operation by the Army and the police in Sibsagar district of Assam early on Saturday morning. Acting on a tip-off about the ultras having put up in a house at Naphuk Naharani village after threatening the inmates at gunpoint, the security forces cordoned off the area at around 2.30 am. The militants fired at the security forces, and they retaliated by killing four of them.
DG (Prisons) rejected allegations, saying action will be taken against DIG D Roopa.
All the 14 accused, arrested in connection with the molestation of two NRI women in Mumbai on New Year day, were released from the jail after a local court on Tuesday completed their bail formalities. "All the fourteen were released at 6.30 pm, after we received the release orders issued by the court," said jail superintendent Swati Sathe. The men had been arrested on January 4, three days after the incident outside a five-star hotel in suburban Juhu.
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There are 26 open jails across the country but none in Bihar.
Ill-fated Kirpal from Gurdaspur has reportedly been acquitted of bomb blast charges by the Lahore high court but his death sentence could not be commuted because of unknown reasons.
Daily wagers are running out of resources, including ration and cash, and the state governments might not be able to sustain their needs for a longer period of time, given the lockdown has already been extended until May 3.
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Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav appears to be quite cut up with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over the latter's surprise visit to the relief camps for victims of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in Western Uttar Pradesh.
A week after formulating stringent guidelines for granting parole to the convicts, Maharashtra government appears to be in a dilemma with reports of some convicts at Yerwada central prison near Pune threatening to launch a protest.
The threat to him was given before he was extradited to New Delhi, he said.
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The length of the sentence is yet to be announced.
A Sikh delegation on Thursday held a demonstration in front of the district Central jail in Bharatpur following which they were allowed to meet the Sikh prisoner whose hair was allegedly cut by other inmates.
The building did not have the mandatory Occupation Certificate granted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, but it was already occupied by around 58 flat owners, according to the civic body.
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