A special court in Ramanathapuram on Wednesday ordered the release of five Sri Lankan fishermen who were arrested off Tuticorin coast by the Indian Coastguard on March 17, 2013. A consultative committee meeting of the Tuticorin District collector, Superintendent of Police, Indian Coastguard officials and Intelligence officials, came to the conclusion that the fishermen from Kalpatti fishing harbour had drifted into the Indian coast by accident due to sea current...
06:48 PM, Mar 27, 2013
The Jammu and Kashmir government said on Wednesday it will approach the Foreign Ministry to seek the post-mortem report of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh, who died in a Pakistani jail. He was allegedly tortured to death in the prison, as claimed by some media reports. ...
02:45 PM, Mar 27, 2013
In a move that could earn him his political party's wrath, he defends Sanjay's right to remain outside prison. ...
04:42 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Under attack for security lapses following alleged suicide of the prime accused in December 16 gangrape case, Tihar Director General Vimla Mehra is preparing a "blueprint" to improve overall functioning of the prison including to plug loopholes in its surveillance system. ...
08:58 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The body of the Indian prisoner from Jammu who was allegedly beaten to death in a Pakistani jail earlier this year has been handed over to Indian officials. Arrested in Sialkot in 2010 and accused of spying, Chamel Singh was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Pakistani Court. ...
08:14 AM, Mar 14, 2013
The special CBI court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of Kadapa MP and YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy till March 20 in the disproportionate assets case against him. Jagan, former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao, industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad, senior bureaucrat KV Brahmananda Reddy (all accused in Vanpic aspect of the Jagan assets case) and other accused, lodged in Chanchalguda Central Prison, were produced before the court through video-conference....
07:43 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The mysterious death of prime accused in Delhi gangrape and murder case, Ram Singh, inside his cell has once again brought into focus the rising cases of suicides and custodial deaths in Indian jails. The law of the land says that every prisoner is innocent till he or she is proven guilty and therefore his or her safety and security is the responsibility of the state. ...
11:36 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The lawyer of Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row in a Pakistani prison, on Saturday said he had received a death threat from the Taliban for pursuing the case of the Indian national. Awais Shiekh said a letter written by an anonymous activist of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan had warned his wife to stop her husband from pursuing the case of Sarabjit. ...
12:40 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Senior Supreme Court Advocate Fali Nariman has said that in a country like India, death penalty should be abolished but also empahasised that life imprisonment must mean imprisonment for entire life. ...
08:01 AM, Feb 17, 2013
An Indian-origin woman, accused of lying extensively about her age and educational qualifications to get employment as a lawyer in New York and England, has been convicted here of forgery and conspiracy and faces upto seven years in prison. London resident Soma Sengupta, 52, was found guilty following a six-week bench trial in New York State Supreme Court of all charges in the indictment including criminal possession of a forged...
12:15 PM, Feb 16, 2013
After netting a handsome revenue of Rs 6.75 crore in nine months through food-making venture, prisons in Kerala are planning to diversify into more products like cakes, 'pappad' and footwear with an aim of fruitfully engaging prisoners and selling these items to the common man at affordable prices. ...
11:20 AM, Feb 14, 2013
A new scheme launched by the Delhi Police called Yuva helps youngsters from crime-prone areas learn skills to earn their own livelihood. The country was outraged after the Delhi braveheart's death and the most brutal of the attacker was a 17-yr-old runaway. ...
10:15 AM, Feb 14, 2013
Authorities have discovered an 18-feet long tunnel inside the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad where 14 of Ahmedabad serial blast accused are presently lodged. ...
12:33 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday said he had ordered an inquiry into the death of Indian national Chambail Singh, who died after he was allegedly assaulted by prison staff in Lahore in December 2012. "I (have) ordered an enquiry by (the Federal Investigation Agency) today," Malik said in a message posted on Twitter. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Syrian opposition fighters have freed about 300 prisoners from a jail near the border with Turkey and found 30 others shot in the head, an opposition activist said on Saturday. Fighters from various brigades have been attacking the Idlib Central Prison for the last three days. ...
05:23 PM, Jan 27, 2013
The family of an Indian man who was reportedly killed in a Pakistani prison a few days ago that his body be brought back. ...
08:48 AM, Jan 26, 2013
Bihar will issue a multi-purpose smart card - a first of its kind in the country - to more than 33,000 prisoners in its 56 jails, an official said on Friday. ...
12:59 AM, Jan 26, 2013
India on Wednesday expressed disappointment over the America's refusal to extradite LeT terrorist David Headley even as it vowed to continue to pursue with its demand for bringing him to New Delhi for his role in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. ...
04:26 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The Justice JS Verma panel has submitted its report on the changes needed to fight crimes against women and suggested that the maximum punishment for rape should be life imprisonment. ...
09:32 PM, Jan 23, 2013
In what is being seen as a setback for India, the United States has ruled out the extradition of Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley - who admitted scouting targets for the deadly attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008 and later testified against the plotters. The 20-page report submitted by the US government in the court also sought a prison term of 30 to 35 years for Headley. ...
06:55 AM, Jan 23, 2013
