Bilkis Bano Case: The Gujarat government's decision granting remission to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case has been invalidated by the S...

The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre and the Bihar government on a plea challenging the state government's decision ...

"Life imprisonment, when awarded as a substitute for death penalty, has to be carried out strictly as directed by the court and would be be...

"We asked the jailer and learnt that their behaviour was good in the prison...also (some of the convicts) are Brahmins. They have good 'san...

The home ministry said that women and transgender convicts above 50 years with overall good conduct, especially those not punished in the l...

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 home ministry had only told Perarivalan that there were 20 cases of remission between 2010 and 2015, but, no other information was give...

The Court had asked the govt how Dutt was granted parole within two months of surrendering.

Dutt was earlier sentenced to five years in jail for possession of arms, which were a part of the consignment used in the 1993 blasts.

"Sanjay Dutt's release is exactly as per the rules and jail manual, just like a common prisoner. Not a single day of special remission has ...

Dutt was released this morning from the Yerawada prison near Pune after the Maharashtra Home department granted him remission considering h...

The 56-year-old actor saluted the tri-colour fluttering on top of the jail building as he carried a bag containing his belongings and his i...

As a semi-skilled worker, Dutt earned a salary of Rs 38,000 over a five-year prison term but, having spent most of it on daily use items.

A five-judge bench headed by chief justice H.L. Dattu said states cannot remit sentences on their own without a convict seeking such lenien...

The court has also said that this should be taken up by the Constitution Bench soon, say, within three months.

Anxious to steal the thunder, has the Tamil Nadu government forgotten provision of setting up an advisory board to process remission senten...

The life imprisonment implies a jail term till the end of convict's life and it is not limited to merely 14 or 20 years, which is a misconc...