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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...04 Feb, 2026, 02.11 PM IST- SC issues notice to Centre, ECI on plea seeking voting rights to undertrialsThe Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and Election Commission regarding a PIL seeking voting rights for undertrial prisoners. ...10 Oct, 2025, 02.46 PM IST
- UK High Court washes down the sink Indian govt's plan to extradite Sanjay BhandariThe UK high court allowed Sanjay Bhandari's appeal against extradition to India, citing inadequate prison conditions and safety concerns. T...02 Mar, 2025, 11.34 PM IST
- States, UTs told not to segregate prisoners on caste, class or religionThe Union Home Ministry has urged states and Union Territories to stop segregating prisoners based on caste and religion and stop assigning...01 Mar, 2024, 12.12 AM IST
- 561 inmates on death row, highest in two decades: ReportA report by Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi reveals a concerning rise in death row inmates in India, reaching a two-decade hi...10 Feb, 2024, 06.17 PM IST
- Justice and trimming for our bloated jailsPSI 2020 reports that only a third of inmates eligible for early release under Section 436A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) were r...18 Jul, 2022, 11.42 PM IST
- 70 pc of foreign prisoners in India under-trials: Govt dataThe recently released annual 'Prison Statistics India 2020' of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows there were 4,926 foreigners l...09 Feb, 2022, 03.22 PM IST
- Indians in jail: Undertrials up by 30 pc, convicts down by 15 pc since 2015The number of Indian undertrials lodged in the country's jails since 2015 has increased by over 30 per cent while that of convicts has redu...04 Feb, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
- 4.83 lakh Indians in jail up to 2020-end, less than one-fourth convicts: dataAs many as 4.83 lakh Indian nationals were lodged across the country's jails by end of 2020, of which over 76 per cent were undertrials whi...03 Feb, 2022, 03.24 PM IST
- Over 400 death row prisoners in Indian jails till 2020: DataOut of 29 convicts whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, 24.1 per cent (seven) were reported from Maharashtra followed by...31 Jan, 2022, 04.07 PM IST
- Home Ministry examines amendments to Identification of Prisoners ActOfficials familiar with the details of the proposal said state governments have suggested the removal of the mandatory one-year rigorous im...13 Sep, 2020, 11.15 PM IST
- ‘Safe houses’ on anvil for foreign ex-convicts in jailAbout 52% of foreigners lodged in Indian prisons are in Bengal, according to NCRB data. Hence the Bengal government has affirmed to set up ...28 Oct, 2019, 10.19 AM IST
- Strive to get data about reform and rehabilitation of young convicts: CIC to BPRDThe transparency panel has directed the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) under Section 25 of the RTI Act "to fulfil its obj...26 Jun, 2019, 03.49 PM IST
- Read Bhagavad Gita several times in US prison: Rajat GuptaOn India's education system, Gupta pointed out that IITs/IIMs have excelled but they have draconian selection process.16 Apr, 2019, 04.21 PM IST
- 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.12 Jun, 2015, 11.05 AM IST
- Muslims, dalits and tribals make up 53% of India's prison population"Poverty is more prevalent among these three communities and that becomes an obstacle in dealing with the legal system," said Colin Gonsalv...24 Nov, 2014, 11.38 AM IST
- Govt cracks down on cos filing false dataCompanies that provide wrong data in a bid to manipulate the advance tax payouts , will now face penal action. Satyam....What lies ahead | ...22 Jan, 2009, 07.28 AM IST
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