In a hearing on Friday, the Uttar Pradesh government assured the Supreme Court of reinforcing security for incarcerated gangster-politician...

Authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district bulldozed two houses belonging to alleged aides of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari ...

The former MLA was sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 10,000 for offences under Section 353 and two years and a f...

Deputy Inspector General of Prisons Administration and Reforms Lucknow Shailendra Kumar suspended the deputy jailor with immediate effect o...

Five-time legislator and one-time MP Ahmad, now over 60, has more then 90 criminal cases, including murder, abduction, illegal mining, exto...

"Inhuman treatment was meted to Mukhtar while being shifted from Punjab to Banda jail. In the over 15-hour journey, he was not given water ...

The plea in apex court has alleged that there is a "genuine, persistent and grave threat" to Ansari's life in Uttar Pradesh and there are "...

Punjab Additional Director General of Police (Prisons), Praveen Kumar Sinha, told that the custody of Ansari has been handed over to the Ut...

Senior police officials said a 150-member team, including a company of the Provincial Armed Constabulary, equipped with sophisticated weapo...

"A team of over 80 Uttar Pradesh Police personnel equipped with sophisticated weapons and a company of the Provincial Armed Constabulary le...

In her letter released to the media on Wednesday, Afshan Ansari claimed that her husband, who is a BSP MLA from Mau, is an eyewitness in a ...

The gangster-turned-legislator from Mau constituency has been in various jails in the state since 2015 under various sections of the IPC.

Officials said the three gangsters are clearly feeling the heat as their new jails are far from their home towns and they are being denied ...

The memorandum that around half a dozen Sikh youths were lodged in various jails of Punjab, Chandigarh and other states.

"There is no provision of saluting MLAs inside the jail. We are probing the matter and action will be taken," state prisons minister Rajend...

Released from prison after a little over a month, the minor backward community girl allegedly raped by a BSP MLA and later framed in a fake...

The 17-year-old girl walked free from the Banda District Jail after an order for her release, issued by the District Judge.