West Bengal has approached the Supreme Court. The state is challenging a Delhi High Court decision. This decision allowed the early release...

The Supreme Court has ordered a Bengaluru court to speed up the Renukaswamy murder case. Actor Darshan and others are involved. The court n...

The Supreme Court has ordered the premature release of Rohit Chaturvedi, a convict in the 2003 Madhumita Shukla murder case. Chaturvedi has...

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...

The Supreme Court criticized the Delhi government for its sluggish handling of premature prisoner releases, expressing disappointment with ...

Lt Governor VK Saxena has approved the creation of over 3,200 posts in the Delhi prisons department. These positions include various roles ...

The Enforcement Director had made a startling revelation in November last year that it had unearthed a "secret underground office" in Tihar...

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in a recent report on prisons, said jails in several states are overcrowded. “Studies of prisons ...

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 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...

The new model prison manual consisting of 32 chapters aims at bringing in basic uniformity in laws, rules and regulations governing the adm...

There were a total of 4,18,536, inmates lodged in the jails in the country as against the capacity of 3,56,361 prisoners, by the end of Dec...

The High Court has been dealing with two PILs relating to ensuring minimum human rights to inmates of Tihar Jail here.

Singh said Central government wants to modernise prisons and as part of its plan it gave Rs 1,800 crore to states under Phase-I which was c...

Balakrishnan also pointed out that issue of prison reforms & improvement required in criminal justice system is a serious point of concern ...

"I visited more than 40 prisons around the world. The reforms which we have been able to do are not seen elsewhere," Bedi said.

Government has sold goods worth nearly Rs 30 crore produced by inmates of Tihar jail over the past four years.