Names of CMs of Punjab and Karnataka along with a former CM found mention in the list.
In his plea, Navlakha, 69, also sought that the HC direct authorities of the Taloja prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai to get him medically examined for a lump developed in his chest.
The Bombay high court will pronounce on Friday its order on two petitions filed by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and former state home minister Anil Deshmukh, both jailed Nationalist Congress Party legislators, seeking permission to cast their votes in the MLC elections scheduled on June 20.
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.
It is money that matters in a Bihar claims Christopher James Rozario, a prisoner lodged in Patna's Beur jail. Access to liquor, mineral water, cellphone and pornographic is possible if an inmate is able to bribe to jail officials and policemen.
'The fact that all the charges against my son are baseless and concocted, in itself, gives me all the hope.'
A government lawyer told the Bombay high court on Friday that though prison inmates can talk to their relatives or lawyers on phone, she was not sure if the facility could be granted to activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
The prime accused in the murder of Telulgu Desam Party legislator Paritvala Ravindra was brutally murdered in the Anantapur district jail in the wee hours of Sunday by another inmate. While Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K Jana Reddy described the murder a result of a fight between two undertrials locked in the same barrack, the opposition has alleged that Julakunti Srinivas Reddy alias Muddu Seenu's murder was a political conspiracy.
'The place I used to sleep in the jail had a big window high up on the opposite side, where at sunrise and sunset time a bird would drop in every day.' 'It could be an eagle or a peacock. And sometimes a monkey.' 'Those moments calmed you, brought hope...'
The jail authorities have, however, said 'the death seems to be due to natural causes.'
Do Uddhav Thackeray, Aditya Thackeray, Sanjay Raut, and Sharad Pawar want the deaths of the Bhima Koregaon accused to be associated with their regime? asks Jyoti Punwani.
'Is it not deplorable that even after 75 years of independence, there are people in our society who have been denied freedom?'
Both films have so much in common.
The court's directions came on an application filed by the accused seeking adequate security in prison so that he was not harmed by anyone in judicial custody.
An inmate of the Central Prison in south-central Mumbai was killed and three others were injured in a clash between two rival groups inside the high security jail on Saturday morning.
According to a recent RTI query, UP tops the list for most jailbreaks.
In the Nagpur Central Jail, a COVID-19 patient who has been complaining since the last 10 days of high fever, breathlessness, joint pain, cold and sore throat, is being treated in jail quarantine. The prisoner is Professor G N Saibaba, 90% handicapped, wheelchair-bound, with a damaged heart and pancreas; dependent on others even for his essential bodily functions.
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.
A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur asked the Centre as to what action has been taken in the matter.
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 day after Parliament approved scrapping of collegium system for appointment of judges in higher courts, the Chief Justice of India R M Lodha on Friday said Parliament and Executive should not interfere in the domain of Judiciary.
Was the recent Nabha jailbreak a comment on lax security in Punjab jails? Or a sign that the separatist movement of the 1980s is dormant but alive?
The prosecution's pursuit of this tiny detail was because they believed the charge from Google, on Indrani's account, was to restore Sheena's Gmail account, via the Google account recovery toolkit, since Indrani did not have the password.
Fed up with the treatment at the Nagpur central jail, his advocate has decided he will no longer deliver anything for Professor Saibaba, leaving it to the jail authorities to fulfill their legal responsibility to look after the professor.
DG (Prisons) rejected allegations, saying action will be taken against DIG D Roopa.
Police are probing both the cases and efforts are on to trace the missing 9mm pistol, they said.
'Saibaba has 19 ailments, including severe heart and kidney problems.' 'Even healthy persons find their systems failing after Covid.' 'What will happen to someone like Saibaba?', Professor G N Saibaba's wife asks Jyoti Punwani.
'I can't help it if people don't love the minorities, the Dalits and Adivasis; they are as much of this country as any other Indian.' 'If I love them, it does not mean I do not love my country.' 'It is ironic and funny that they have laid such severe anti-national charges against me.'
'It is only when those who are oppressed stand for themselves that society is forced to create space for them,' says Aakar Patel.
The threat to him was given before he was extradited to New Delhi, he said.
'Low-hanging ambitions and straightforward conflict between negotiators of harm and reform renders Lucknow Central a surprising watchability,' says Sukanya Verma.
The Comptroller and Auditor General report tabled in Gujarat legislature has indicated security lapses and mismanagement by the jail staff in the state prisons.
He is, at the closing of 2018, a man quite different from the Peter Mukerjea who entered judicial custody three-and-a-half years ago. He is a man not yet convicted of a crime, but already suffering for it, like the hundreds that enter these courts every day and the thousands Peter shares jail space with in a central Mumbai prison.
A young IT grad jailed for visa fraud committed by his agent, gives an insider's view of life in jail.
'There are other prisoners too who are behaving in a good manner, but they are not being released sooner.'
'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.'
Indrani is easily the most striking woman arriving in the court complex from jail on trial days. For those who don't know who she is, there is absurd puzzlement written large on faces when they bump into her. When she reaches or leaves the premises, one notices heads swivelling in jaw-dropping curiosity, as did a pair of transsexual undertrials who crossed her path at the last hearing of 2018, who were, not surprisingly, a less unusual sight than Indrani.
All 12 convicts found guilty in the case relating to the July 11, 2006 serial train blasts, which claimed 188 lives in local trains in Mumbai, have pleaded leniency in the court on the point of sentence citing humanitarian grounds.
Pasbola wound up his cross examination, tabling a new narrative in the murder case. That Sheena Bora had been murdered not by her mother. But by her brother.
Under threat from the Maoists, and jailed by the police, AAP's Soni Sori plunges into the election for all she holds dear. Aman Sethi reports
