The top court also directed the state governments and their HPCs to file within five days the norms or the guidelines being adopted by them...

The 13 convicts had approached the top court, claiming their detention to be "illegal" as there were clear orders passed by the Juvenile Ju...

Petitioner R K Gossain, an advocate, said in the plea that following social distancing norms is the most crucial factor but jails in Delhi ...

"I met jail officials and personnel, and congratulated them for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. I also met inmates and heard their...

The 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...

The 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 government standing counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra, appearing for the prison authorities, confirmed that the interim bails have been ...

The release of prisoners as a precautionary measure from the last week of March followed a direction by the Supreme Court, and more jail in...

The Supreme Court in March directed all states and Union Territories to constitute high-level committees to consider releasing on parole or...

In a bid to decongest state jails due to coronavirus outbreak, the state prisons department has so far released over 7,200 prisoners across...

The committee, comprising Bombay High Court Justice A A Sayed, Additional Chief Secretary of state Home department Sanjay Chahande and Maha...

In three separate orders granting interim suspension of sentences, Justice Anup J Bhambhani has directed the three convicts to make a video...

Those 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...

With 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...

The bench suggested that undertrials awaiting trial for offences entailing maximum sentence of seven years also be extended a similar benef...

The letter from the home ministry said there was an ‘immediate need to decongest jails’ by setting up high-security prisons for those accus...

The saga of around 200,000 undertrials in jails across India may come to an end within six months.