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Renukaswamy murder case: SC directs Bengaluru court to expedite trial involving actor DarshanThe Supreme Court has ordered a Bengaluru court to speed up the Renukaswamy murder case. Actor Darshan and others are involved. The court n...
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...
Delhi's prisons severely overcrowded, 91% inmates undertrials: StudyDelhi's prisons are severely overcrowded, with undertrial inmates constituting 91% of the incarcerated population, as per the India Justice...
Decision to cap number of visits by prisoners' kin, counsel not arbitrary, says Delhi HCDelhi High Court has said the authorities' decision to cap the number of visits by prisoners' families, friends and legal advisers to twice...
Majority undertrials from poorer sections, shows NCRB dataWhile the number of convicts from SCs, STs and OBCs stood at 89,802, those under trial stood at 283,535, with the highest number in Uttar P...
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...
Number of prisons fall while inmate count rises 1.5%: ReportThe number of prisons at the national level has decreased by 3.3% from 1,351 in 2019 to 1,306 in 2020 while the number of inmates lodged in...
52 jail inmates, 7 staffers under treatment for COVID in DelhiAccording to the data shared by officials, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Delhi prisons till Tuesday stands at 59, including seven ...
- Inform undertrials when they will be released: CIC
The CIC order has come on the plea of an RTI applicant who had sought information from Tihar Jail authorities whether Undertrial Review Com...
Tiny dreams blossom in Tihar jail's corner of innocenceTihar campus is home to kids along with their mothers who are either undertrials or have been sentenced for crimes like murders or dowry de...
Women inmates in jail: Concerned HC asks DSLSA to take stepsThe court said panel lawyers of DSLSA shall prepare appropriate applications for bail for all the 105 undertrial prisoners and file the sam...
Undertrial allegedly commits suicide at Tihar jailThe body of Ravinder, 27, son of Govindpuri resident Chote Lal, was found by his cell mates and warders last evening, a Tihar official said...
Two undertrials dig their way out of Tihar jailThe undertrials, who prison authorities are yet to identify, slipped out of sub-jail 7 to another which is connected to the perimeter wall.
Tihar starts re-lodging of 6000 inmatesEarlier those accused in similar cases and booked under same FIR were kept together in cells as it was easy to present them in courts.
Armed with English, Tihar inmates to compete for jobsAt Tihar, which has a placement cell of its own, the Teach India initiative has changed many lives ever since the English course was introd...
New ward for old-age inmates inaugurated at TiharKeeping in mind the health and age-related problems faced by elderly inmates, Tihar Director General Alok Verma today inaugurated a new war...
- 'Suicides aren't rare in Tihar'
Such incidents will continue unless measures like screening of inmates for risk behaviours, counselling and treatment for psychiatric disor...
- Centre asks states to review cases of undertrials
The advisory said although the percentage overcrowding in jails is steadily going down, even then 67% of the inmates in various prisons are...
- Tihar Jail: What's behind the walls
It is not just a place where criminals, petty and hardened, are held. And it is not just another jail. Tihar Jail is now positioned as a co...
- At 'campus placement', 14 Tihar inmates get jobs
It was a special campus placement session at Tihar jail which gave the lucky 14 not just a job but a ticket to a new life of dignity.