Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt, who had surrendered in a TADA court in Mumbai on May 16 in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, was shifted to Pune's Yerwada Jail on Wednesday.
The 53-year-old Bollywood star was lodged in the 'anda' cell in the Arthur Road jail after Dutt surrendered before the expiry of the Supreme Court-set deadline to serve his remaining sentence in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case.
Dutt had told a special TADA court that he faced threat to his life from fundamentalist groups.
The Supreme Court in its March 21 verdict awarded five years' imprisonment to the 53-year-old actor for illegal possession of arms. The apex court on May 14 refused to grant him more time to surrender. ...
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08:05 AM, May 22, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will remain in the 'anda' (egg-shaped) cell in the high-security block at the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai for some time, a top police officer said on Monday, as authorities in Maharashtra debate whether to shift him out of Mumbai. "We will take some more time to take a call on whether to shift Dutt or not. He will not be shifted anywhere in the near...
05:16 PM, May 20, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt spent his first night in jail in Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail on Thursday. He is awaiting an order which decides as to which jail will he be permanently shifted to. He is most likely to be taken to Pune's Yerwada Jail in a day or two, where he will serve his three-and-a-half-year sentence. He has been allowed home-cooked meals and medicines from home for a month....
09:43 AM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt on Wednesday told a court here that he will surrender before it on Thursday to undergo the prison term in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, even as a jail official said he would be provided adequate security in the wake of an anonymous letter alleging threat to his life. Dutt's lawyer Subhash Yadav submitted before the special TADA court that the 53-year-old actor wanted to withdraw...
06:30 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Abu Jundal, an alleged operative of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and a key handler during the 26/11 terror attacks, has approached Bombay High Court seeking that he should not be kept in solitary confinement in the same cell where Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab once stayed. Jundal has been lodged in Arthur Road prison in central Mumbai. His cell was earlier occupied by Kasab, the lone arrested terrorist of 26/11 attacks,...
07:53 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Saturday said the Centre had decided not to recover from Maharashtra government Rs 21 crore on account of deployment of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at Arthur Road Central Jail in Mumbai to guard 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab. ...
04:45 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Mumbai: Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving terrorist of the 26/11 attack and a member of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was hanged at Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30 am on Wednesday and later buried inside the jail premises. A fax message on the decision taken on Kasab was sent to Pakistan's foreign ministry. While Pakistan acknowledged the fax, it has not claimed Kasab's body. Kasab's mercy plea was rejected by...
04:24 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Mumbai: Even though a day has passed since the Supreme Court upheld Ajmal Kasab's death sentence, the jailed Pakistani terrorist remains unaware of his fate, a prison official said on Thursday. "We think it is not advisable to communicate the Supreme Court verdict to Kasab yet. We have not received the hard copy of the judgment papers and hence the decision," AC Rane, superintendent of high-security Arthur Road Jail in...
08:21 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab and key 26/11 handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal were on Thursday questioned together by the police at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai. The terrorists were questioned inside Kasab's high-security prison. According to the police, Kasab identified Jundal as on of the conspirators of the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008. This comes three days after the Mumbai Crime...
10:50 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Mumbai: Three years after Ajmal Amir Kasab and his accomplices struck the country's financial capital, the survivors of 26/11 terror attacks are still waiting for the day when the convicted Pakistani gunman will be hanged. "Why is Kasab not hanged yet? What are we waiting for, another 26/11 type horrific attack? Kasab and his accomplices went on a rampage and shook every one of us. Why the government is not...
09:57 AM, Nov 26, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday rapped the Maharashtra government and the Enforcement Directorate for their alleged callous approach towards the health of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of tax evasion and money laundering. Hasan was taken to state-run JJ Hospital last week following direction from the high court on a petition filed by him seeking immediate medical attention for ailments like diabetes, liver cirrhosis and...
06:46 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Mumbai: Rheema Khan, the wife of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali, would be present in the Supreme Court on Monday when the Enforcement Directorate submits a status report of the probe into his alleged money-laundering activities. "Hasan Ali's wife would appear before the Supreme Court on Monday," said his lawyer, advocate I A Bagadia here. Bagadia also said she had faxed a letter to ED, saying she would appear...
07:05 AM, Mar 28, 2011
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government will soon take a decision on whether to shift Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab from Arthur jail to some other prison after his death sentence was upheld by the Bombay High Court on Monday. "We have not yet decided over shifting Kasab to some other jail. I will soon discuss the issue with officials of the Home Department," Home Minister RR Patil said on Monday. "Kasab is...
10:46 PM, Feb 21, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai: Police men and people who had fought the 26/11 terror attack on mumbai in 2008 as well as the victims of the tragedy are happy at the death sentence of Ajmal Kasab upheld by the Supreme Court on Monday. Railway Assistant Sub-Inspector Jillu Yadav: "I am extremely happy," said the railway police official, who had fired at Ajmal Kasab during the 26/11 attacks at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus...
04:39 PM, Feb 21, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab had reportedly attacked a jail superintendent at the high-security Arthur Road jail on September 1, 2010. The prosecution has submitted CCTV footage as evidence before the special court which shows Kasab attacking the jail superintendent. The prosecution made the claim after Kasab's lawyer demanded that they should be allowed to talk to him without the jail staff within hearing distance. But the prosecution countered...
12:23 PM, Sep 28, 2010
Underworld dons spend Rs 5-6 lakh a month to lead a lavish life; petty criminals struggle to get even the basic facilities. ...
08:40 AM, Jul 29, 2010
Gangster had a "five-star" bathroom and ate home-cooked food at the high-security Arthur Road Jail. ...
05:15 PM, Jul 26, 2010
Gangster Abu Salem was attacked by Dawood Ibrahim's henchman Mustafa Dossa in Arthur Road Jail. ...
02:19 PM, Jul 24, 2010
The Pakistani terrorist sentenced to death in the Mumbai terror attack case has got a new identity in the jail. ...
05:21 PM, May 21, 2010
The Bombay HC had asked Shiney Ahuja to stay away from Mumbai. ...
11:57 AM, Oct 04, 2009
