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Noida@50: How Sanjay Gandhi’s Emergency-era idea turned dusty fields at Rs 4 to Rs 5 lakh per sq yardNoida, established on April 17, 1976, during India's Emergency, was conceived from an aerial view by Sanjay Gandhi to relocate Delhi's fact...- Establishing open prisons can be solution to decongest jails: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court suggested establishing open jails as a solution to prison overcrowding and prisoner rehabilitation. Open prisons allow co...
- UP eyes early release of seriously ill, aged convictsPrisoners over the age of 70 or suffering from serious diseases should be prioritised and action taken to ensure their release within two m...
- Prisoners released during COVID-19 second wave will not surrender until further orders: SCThe top court also directed the state governments and their HPCs to file within five days the norms or the guidelines being adopted by them...
- Supreme Court takes suo motu note of delay in release of prisoners after grant of bailThe 13 convicts had approached the top court, claiming their detention to be "illegal" as there were clear orders passed by the Juvenile Ju...
- Plea in HC to release prisoners on interim bail to decongest jails due to spike in COVID-19 cases in DelhiPetitioner R K Gossain, an advocate, said in the plea that following social distancing norms is the most crucial factor but jails in Delhi ...
- Maharashtra government mulling over proposal for modern jails: Anil Deshmukh"I met jail officials and personnel, and congratulated them for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. I also met inmates and heard their...
- COVID-19: Delhi HC extends by 45 days interim bail of nearly 3,500 undertrial prisonersThe interim bail of prisoners released in accordance with criteria laid down by the HPC was last extended by the high court on November 5 b...
- COVID-19: MP govt extends parole of 4,000 prisoners by 60 daysThe decision to grant parole to inmates of jails was taken in March this year after the Supreme Court directed states to take steps to deco...
- Delhi High Court extends by 30 days interim bail of over 3,300 under-trial prisonersDelhi government standing counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra, appearing for the prison authorities, confirmed that the interim bails have been ...
- COVID-19 outbreak in Jaipur jail worries authorities; thousands of prisoners released on bail or parole across IndiaThe release of prisoners as a precautionary measure from the last week of March followed a direction by the Supreme Court, and more jail in...
- 3,418 prisoners released from Chhattisgarh jails: OfficialThe Supreme Court in March directed all states and Union Territories to constitute high-level committees to consider releasing on parole or...
- COVID-19: Maharashtra releases 7,200 prisoners to curb overcrowdingIn a bid to decongest state jails due to coronavirus outbreak, the state prisons department has so far released over 7,200 prisoners across...
- Maharashtra govt panel decides to release 50 pc prisoners from state jailsThe committee, comprising Bombay High Court Justice A A Sayed, Additional Chief Secretary of state Home department Sanjay Chahande and Maha...
- Sharing location, video calls in HC bail conditions to track prisoners on bail during lockdownIn three separate orders granting interim suspension of sentences, Justice Anup J Bhambhani has directed the three convicts to make a video...
- To ease congestion, convicts to be given up to 6 months’ remissionThose sentenced to 10 years or more and left with six months of sentence and those sentenced to seven years and left with five months of se...
- COVID-19: In a bid to decongest, Punjab to release 6,000 prisoners from jails across stateWith a view to decongest state prisons in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Punjab is going to release around 6,000 prisoners from all the...
- Coronavirus: SC directs states, UTs to set up panel to consider release of prisoners on paroleThe bench suggested that undertrials awaiting trial for offences entailing maximum sentence of seven years also be extended a similar benef...
- Build separate jails for ordinary, terror convicts: J&K asks CentreThe letter from the home ministry said there was an ‘immediate need to decongest jails’ by setting up high-security prisons for those accus...
- Moily promises release of two lakh undertrialsThe saga of around 200,000 undertrials in jails across India may come to an end within six months.
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