New Delhi: An inmate at the high security Tihar prison died and five sustained injuries on Friday following a violent clash between two groups.
Sources said Javed, a resident of Seelumpur, succumbed to injuries at around 4 pm on Friday. His body has been sent for postmortem but prima facie it appears that he was attacked with improvised knife. This is the third unnatural death in 2013 in India's most high profile prison. A judicial probe has now been ordered.
Just two months back Ram Singh, the main accused in the December 16 gangrape case committed suicide inside his prison cell. Days later a female under trial hung herself in her cell. Friday's incident happened despite security being increased.
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08:37 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: An inmate at the high security Tihar prison died and three sustained injuries on Friday following a violent clash between two groups. The incident occurred at the jail number one of the prison at around 6:30 am in which 27-year-old Javed, a resident of Seelampur area of North East Delhi, died. "Two groups had old rivalries and this morning they clashed with each other in which inmate Javed...
08:27 PM, May 03, 2013
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08:12 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Tihar Prisons will conduct its fifth campus placement on Friday for its inmates with companies involved in packing services and footwear set to participate in the selection process. As many as 14 companies including Agarwal Packers and Movers, Relaxo footwear, Frontline Group, ABC constructions, Adecco Consultant, Ashwords Network and Jyoti Portfolio Limited will select candidates from 24 convicts. In four successful campus placements conducted last year and in...
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New Delhi: Expressing concern over delay by the Centre and state governments in deciding mercy pleas of prisoners on death row, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought from them the records of all such cases. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay said the home secretaries of all the states would send the records of all cases of mercy pleas to states within three days to the Centre,...
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07:36 AM, Jan 26, 2012
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