Mumbai: Two unidentified persons on a bike opened fire outside the Taloja Prison in Navi Mumbai on Sunday evening. The unidentified men fired at the prison employees. Injured prison employees were taken to a nearby hospital. ...
08:44 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Islamabad: Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row, is all set to be released by the Pakistani government, his lawyer Awais Sheikh says. Sheikh has said that as per his information, the Pakistani government has decided to release Sarabjit Singh, Online news agency reported Friday. Sheikh further said he hopes that Sarabjit Singh would be released before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Pakistan. "The Government of Pakistan has,...
01:50 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Chennai: Dressed smartly in blue striped shirts and dark blue pants, 30 men marched out of the Central Prison at Puzhal on Wednesday evening. While looking a bit self-conscious at being the cynosure of all eyes, they adjusted their caps and stood at attention. Usually sidelined and rejected by society, these men are remand prisoners who have sought to change their lives by getting gainful employment once they are out...
02:22 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Kolkata: Acting on recommendation of the state-appointed Bandi Mukti Committee, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced the release of 17 lifers. With this, the Mamata-led government, since it came to power in May 2011, has released 140 prisoners in three phases comprising 57 political prisoners and 83 prisoners convicted to life-term, Banerjee said. The exercise began with the release of 57 political prisoners in the first lot...
01:05 AM, Sep 06, 2012
Hyderabad: Alleged preferential treatment to the VIPs lodged at the Chanchalguda central prison and their family members by the prison superintendent K Kesava Naidu led to his transfer here on Monday. Though the exercise is being described as "routine" by the prison top brass, sources said Naidu was transferred after he allegedly allowed some prisoners more 'mulaqats' than rules permitted. Naidu has been transferred to the State Institute of Correctional...
03:48 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Bangalore: With Governor H R Bhardwaj turning down its requests for the early release of prisoners with good conduct, the state government is now planning to knock the doors of President of India on the issue. Speaking to reporters here on Monday, Social Welfare and Prisons Minister A Narayanaswamy said that the government would seriously explore the possibility of approaching the President seeking release of prisoners with good conduct. Bypassing...
01:34 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Karachi: An Indian woman, who left her country and religion to marry a Pakistani man but was betrayed and virtually imprisoned by him for 13 years, finally has hope of returning home, with the human rights commission in Karachi taking up her case. Shabnam, who was originally called Shirley Ann Hodges, met Gul Khan in India, whom she married before travelling to Karachi with her new-born child to meet his...
09:57 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Mumbai: Twenty three people, who were arrested in connection with the violence at Azad Maidan in Mumbai earlier this month, are set to undergo a medical examination on Monday. The group had moved a local court last week seeking to undergo the check up to validate their claims of being beaten up by the police at the Arthur Road prison where all of them are currently lodged. If the test...
08:14 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Kozhikode: The 24 persons sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with the 2003 communal violence at Marad that claimed nine lives, surrendered before a trial court in Kozhikode on Friday as per a High Court directive. All of them surrendered before the Kozhikode Additional Sessions Court. On August 16, the High Court had sentenced the 24 to life imprisonment, setting aside their acquittal by a lower court. The court had...
11:43 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Islamabad: India and Pakistan are likely to carry out their biggest ever swap of prisoners being held in each other's jails as part of the normalisation of their relations, according to a media report on Monday. A broad understanding on releasing prisoners was reached when President Asif Ali Zardari met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a private visit to India in April, unnamed officials were quoted as saying by The...
09:49 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: Union Power Minister Veerappa Moily on Monday came under fire from Congress colleague and former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh for his suggestion to imprison the chief secretaries of states that overdrew power from the power grids. He said, "I differ with Moily on this issue. I think Moily wants somebody to take the responsibility for all these things. I think it is the government after all... People...
02:36 PM, Aug 20, 2012
London: Mark Chapman, who was jailed in 1981 for the murder of John Lennon, is up for parole for the seventh time and may be released, a media report said. The 57-year-old inmate at the Wende Correctional Facility will be interviewed by members of the parole board soon, and the board would make a decision on whether to release the murderer, the Daily Mail reported. Chapman shot Lennon in December...
12:02 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Power Minister Veerappa Moily has said that his ministry will take stern steps like heavy fines and even imprisonment to prevent states from overdrawing power from the grids. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the minister gave assurances that the grid collapse that happened on two consecutive days in the end of July will not happen again. Below is an edited transcript of the excerpt from the interview. Karan...
07:56 AM, Aug 19, 2012
Kannur: The jails in the district here are now overcrowded with remand prisoners following a series of violent incidents and clashes that took place recently. The number of remand prisoners housed in the Kannur Central Prison rose to 300 following the arrest of CPM district secretary P Jayarajan. Most of the remand prisoners kept in the Central Prison now are those arrested in connection with the violent incidents and attacks...
12:38 PM, Aug 14, 2012
London: An innovative scheme to use prisoners with genuine British accents in call centres inside UK jails is being considered by the Ministry of Justice as part of its work programme for prisoners. One of the consumer complaints against British companies who have call centres in India has been that Indian workers sometimes do not understand the many regional British accents of callers, resulting in errors. There are reports that...
05:09 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: There are 426 Indian citizens - 421 male and five female - undergoing sentences in British jails after being convicted for a variety of offences, latest figures show as demands grew to deport foreign prisoners to their home countries to serve their sentences. Official sources said on Thursday that according to prison figures as of June 30, there were 2,093 prisoners with citizenship of countries in Asia, which included...
07:13 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The open prison at Nettukaltheri, which had earlier created a unique model in farming, is again setting an example with a handful of projects, ranging from beautification projects to check dams. The two check dams, built at the Nettukaltheri prison and Thevancode annexe, will cater to the irrigation needs of the prison, making 320 acres of land suitable for agriculture out of the total 474 acres. The check dam...
04:23 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Hyderabad: After the introduction of telephone facility at the Cherlapally Central Prison in Hyderabad evoked a good response among jail inmates, the Andhra Pradesh Department of Prisons has decided to extend the service to other central jails in the state. The move is aimed at bringing down the smuggling of cell phones into jails. It would enable prisoners to communicate with their family members in an official way, for which,...
10:25 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Jaipur: Murder convict TB Thapa always wanted to be a painter. At the age of 35, he finally realised his dream, albeit at the most unlikeliest of places - the Jaipur Central Jail. "This is like meditation... It takes away from the stress and confinement of being in jail," he says with a glint in his eye. Like Thapa, Madhusudan, another convict, too picked up the brush and palette and...
08:12 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Bangalore: A hundred and seventy four children from various schools and colleges, under one roof. Some of them are good dancers, some are good at sports and some are even gold medalists in Karate at a national level. But this is not a temporary gathering. They live here. And there is one common factor that seamlessly binds all of them together - they all are children of prisoners. V Mani,...
09:15 AM, Aug 01, 2012
