The Supreme Court has voiced strong concerns regarding the denial of bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. Judges highlighted th...

Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid has been granted interim bail by the Delhi High Court until June 2 following the death of his father. Curr...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed India as a mediator for the Iran-US conflict. He highlighted India's extensive diplomatic ...

The Supreme Court has overturned a Delhi High Court decision that suspended the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar. The c...

Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma refused to step down from hearing Arvind Kejriwal's excise police case. She stated Kejriwal's claims were base...

The Supreme Court has given Delhi Police an additional two weeks to file their response. This is regarding the bail applications of Tasleem...

The Centre directs state governments to ensure equal prison visitation rights for members of the queer community without discrimination. Gu...

A study by legal rights body iProbono reveals that over 9,600 children were wrongly held in adult prisons in India from 2016 to 2021. The s...

The LG has also noted that the Prison Department was under the now jailed AAP leader and minister Satyendar Jain. Under him, it was marred ...

The transparency panel has directed the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) under Section 25 of the RTI Act "to fulfil its obj...

The new manual is aimed at bringing uniformity in rules and regulations governing the administration of prisons and management of prisoners...

The report also brought to the notice the poor medical facilities in the jails in Delhi as over 93,224 patients had to be referred to outsi...

Centre wants the WB Correctional Services Act, 1992, to be amended to deny political prisoner’s status to member of any organisation proscr...

WB govt will have to amend its law, and redefine a political prisoner, if Aftab Ansari, , is to be denied the status, says law ministry.

The home ministry has advised the West Bengal government to amend a law enacted by the Left Front government, in 1992.

The ministry of external affairs told a bench of Justices R M Lodha and H L Gokhale that as many as 53 Pakistani prisoners had challenged t...

A total of 142 prisoners are still detained under provisions of TADA Act across the country with Maharashtra topping the list with 50 such ...