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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
- MHA frames rules for release of poor prisonersThe Union home ministry has framed guidelines to decongest prisons and has asked states and Union Territories to release economically weake...06 Aug, 2023, 11.46 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
- India's 27.37 per cent prison inmates 'illiterate', over 5,600 techies: Govt dataThe data on education of prison inmates showed that the maximum number of 1,98,872 (or 41.55 per cent) prisoners are educated below class 1...14 Feb, 2021, 04.28 PM IST
- Over 67% prison inmates Hindu, nearly 18% Muslim: Govt dataThe prison statistics presented by Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy last week in Parliament were based on a compilation of...14 Feb, 2021, 02.31 PM IST
- 3.15 lakh or 65.90% prison inmates from SC, ST, OBC categories: Govt dataOf the total 4,78,600 prison inmates in the country, 3,15,409 or 65.90 per cent belong to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and the Ot...10 Feb, 2021, 05.13 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
- 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
- More Muslims in Maharashtra and Bengal prisons than Gujarat56.7 % of prisoners in UP, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bengal jails belong to the Muslim community.15 Nov, 2012, 05.03 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
- Compulsive liars to face compulsory penal actionCompanies that provide wrong production, pricing and capacity details to the government to manipulate advance tax payouts will now face pen...21 Jan, 2009, 02.12 AM IST
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