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Lionel Messi tour organiser files complaint against ex-Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas, former top cop for 'sabotaging' eventLionel Messi tour organiser Satadru Dutta has filed a police complaint. He alleges former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas and othe...- SC directs states, UTs to furnish updated details on prisons, including overcrowdingThe Supreme Court has ordered all states and Union territories to submit updated jail statistics by May 18. This includes prison capacity, ...
- Delhi crime files: Half the prison cells are filled with youth aged 21–30; Is the capital losing its future behind bars?Delhi Crime: Nearly 50% of Delhi's 18,969 prisoners are between 21 and 30 years old, with over 55% under 30. Poverty, unemployment, and the...
- Detaining prisoner without trial amounts to pre-trial punishment; bail is rule, says HCThe Bombay High Court stresses that bail is a norm. Refusal is an exception. Prolonged detention without trial equates to pre-trial punishm...
- New criminal laws may help reduce jail overcrowdingThe new criminal laws, known as BNSS, aim to address jail overcrowding by offering leniency to first-time offenders. Bail conditions have b...
- Speedy trial can become effective tool to address overcrowding in jails, says SC panel on prison reformsThe Supreme Court Committee on Prison Reforms in India has highlighted the "pitiful state of affairs" in the country's prisons, emphasizing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Union home ministry asks prisons to screen foreign inmates, use videoconferencing for kinMore than 466,084 persons are lodged in 1,318 prisons across India, according to the 2018 report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB...
- Overcrowded jails cause for worry: CJI SA BobdeSocial distancing in such places is difficult, Justice SA Bobde said, even as he sought an action plan from prison authorities throughout t...
- Nirav Modi to be held in one of England's most overcrowded jailsNirav Modi will be lodged at the prison until he appears for his first case management hearing on March 29
- Supreme Court forms panel to bring in jail reformsThe Supreme Court on Tuesday set up a panel headed by a retired judge of the court to usher in drastic prison reforms and decongest overcro...
- Supreme Court shocked at over 600 per cent overcrowding in jails"What's the point in talking about prison reforms when we cannot keep them in jail. We should release them, if you cannot keep them properl...
- JD(U) member of Rajya Sabha raises issue of paucity of judgesYadav raised the issue in a supplementary during Question Hour after a reply by Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary on...
- Delhi jails 'grossly' overcrowded, prisoners double than capacity: CAGThe 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...
- 10 unnatural deaths occur in Indian jails every monthAt 5.9 unnatural deaths per 10,000 inmates, Delhi's jails clock more than twice the national rate of 2.8 per 10,000 inmates.
- Delhi High Court seeks Centre's, Delhi government's reply on under trial prisonersThe High Court has been dealing with two PILs relating to ensuring minimum human rights to inmates of Tihar Jail here.
- West Bengal's second open jail will come up at DurgapurWest Bengal government has decided to set up an "Open Correctional Home"at Durgapur in Burdwan district, the second such home in the state ...
- Video conference facility at Maharashtra jailsVideo conferencing facility would be installed at jails in Maharashtra to cut expenditure on moving undertrials to courts, home minister RR...
- Indian prisons overcrowded by over one lakhPrisons across the country are bursting at the seams having to lodge about 1.10 lakh convicts and undertrials more than their capacity, wit...
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