Islamabad: Leading rights activist Ansar Burney has asked the Pakistan government to immediately free three Indian prisoners who had either completed their jail terms or whose release has been ordered by court. Indian national Surjeet Singh alias Makhan Singh had completed his prison term on October 30, 2010 but he continues to be held in prison, Burney said in letters sent to President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza...
05:33 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Ahmednagar: Thirty-two Indians are languishing in Pakistani jails even though a Lahore court ordered their immediate release as they had all served their sentences. However, it is red tape that is standing in the way of their freedom. Aunabai Karale couldn't hold back her tears when she read letters from her husband Bhanudas, who went missing from Pune in January, 2010. But it was only in August, 2011 that his...
08:46 AM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Amid allegations of Indian indifference towards Sri Lankan Tamils, Indian prisoners serving long sentences in Colombo's main prison say they feel badly let down by Indian authorities. A spokesperson for the 30 Indian men and three women in the Wellikade Jail said that despite the existence of a bilateral pact, New Delhi was making no efforts to take them back so that they could serve their sentences in...
12:05 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Chandigarh: A police vehicle carrying prisoners was attacked by unidentified assailants in Haryana's Jhajjar district on Saturday, leaving three prisoners dead and two policemen injured, police here said. The attack on the police vehicle took place near Duleena village in Jhajjar district, over 350 km from Chandigarh. Police said the prisoners, who had been brought from Rohtak to Gurgaon, were being taken back when the attack took place. The attackers...
08:05 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Monterrey, (Mexico): An inmate riot that may have been staged to cover a breakout killed 44 prisoners on Sunday, and the jail's director and all guards on duty at the time have been detained, a security official said. Nuevo Leon state public security spokesman Jorge Domene Zambrano said the riot broke out at about 2 am in a high-security section of a state prison in the city of Apodaca outside...
11:40 AM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: A total of 73.5 percent inmates of Tihar Jail are undergoing trial, which is much above the national average of 66.4 percent undertrials in Indian jails, an official said Tuesday. The jail is now compiling a report of undertrial prisoners who have been granted bail but are unable to furnish sureties. "Out of the 11,598 prisoners lodged in Tihar Jail, 8,911 inmates are undertrials, including 410 women. A...
09:17 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Mumbai: No more private moments for convicts in Maharashtra, not many anyway. With the state government's nod to a Rs 7.5-crore modernisation plan, all the central jails in the state will be put under 24/7 CCTV surveillance. Criminal activities within jails have been a major cause of concern for cops as well as the government. In the past, local police have recorded series of clashes between groups inside prisons. To...
05:20 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Jaipur: The family of Pakistani doctor Khalil Chisti has been granted permission to meet the Governor of Rajasthan on Saturday to plead for his release on a month-long visa. Dr Chisti's wife, Meherunissa Chisti, said, "I appeal the Rajasthan Government to please release Dr Chisti in a months time. My visa will expire in a month. Everyone back home is really worried about him. Every year we have to celebrate...
08:42 AM, Nov 19, 2011
HYDERABAD: It was not a festival and no discounts were on offer for the clothes and decorative items on sale at the stalls near the Secretariat on Tuesday. But still, the rush to buy everything from sarees to furniture must be seen to be believed. One of those vying to buy the goods was KLN Giri, an employee at the Secretariat. I purchased furniture, blankets and some other items for...
08:36 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Gaza City: Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip says the militant group has officially turned over a captive Israeli soldier to Egypt as part of a prisoner swap with Israel. In a text message, Mahmoud Zahar said on Tuesday that his group is no longer holding Sgt Gilad Schalit. Earlier, militants had whisked the 25-year-old soldier across Gaza's border to Egypt, which has acted as a mediator in the deal....
01:01 PM, Oct 18, 2011
Kolkata: Taking advantage of the earthquake on Sunday, prisoners in Jalpaiguri jail tried to escape as some of the doors and windows collapsed under the impact of the tremor, prison authorities said. Nearly 1,100 prisoners came out of their cells in the Jalpaiguri Central Correctional Home after the windows and doors of some prison cells collapsed. "Nearly 1,100 prisoners broke open the collapsed doors and came outside," jail officials said....
02:24 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Lahore: Twenty-four Indians, including two women, languishing in Pakistani jails, crossed into their homeland from the Wagah border on Friday, as an Indo-Pak judicial panel demanded "fast-track release of each others fishermen" and save them from becoming "victims of maltreatment". The Pakistani government in a "goodwill gesture" on Thursday announced the release of 14 fishermen who had spent nearly 15 months behind bars in Karachi's Malir Jail. However, the authorities...
05:21 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Jaipur: Dr Khalil Chisty, 78, who is battling several ailments at the Ajmer Jail may not have much time. And that's why the movement to release him and reunite him with his family across the border in Pakistan is gaining momentum. Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has now put in his support for Dr Chisty's sentence to be commuted. Bhatt said, "We have to eventually send him back someday but if we...
08:59 AM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Rajasthan government is considering the mercy plea of 80-year-old Pakistani prisoner Dr Khalil Chishty who's been in a jail in Ajmer for some 20 years. The family of the man he was convicted of murdering is now opposing his release, demanding that his plea be quashed. The family of the Idris - whose murder Chishty has been convicted for - is opposing his release Dr Khalil Chisty,...
08:23 AM, Jun 28, 2011
Jaipur: Dr Khaleel Chisty, the 78-year-old Pakistani virologist, hopes for an early release from the Ajmer jail, even as the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries held talks in Islamabad. Dr Chisty, who is serving a jail term for murder in Ajmer, Rajasthan, has a chance of being released, as a goodwill gesture. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said she was hopeful of an early release of Dr Khalil Chisty. "India is...
10:44 AM, Jun 24, 2011
Jaipur: Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention just days before the Foreign Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan, 78-year-old Pakistani virologist Dr Khalil Chishty, who is languishing in Ajmer jail, may finally be released. Serving a life term for a 1992 murder, his mercy petition has been cleared by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, after the PM asked Home Minister Chidambaram to examine the request of Supreme Court judge...
09:33 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Lucknow: "God is great, thank you," said Brij Bihari Pandey after being released from Gorakhpur district jail. At 108 years, the murder convict was India's oldest prisoner, and was freed following a special bail granted to him by the Allahabad High Court. "Brij Bihari Pandey was jailed in 2009 after being convicted along with 15 others for the murder in 1987 of four persons in Maharajganj over inheritance of a...
03:52 PM, Jun 18, 2011
Lahore: The sister of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in Pakistan for alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Punjab province, is hopeful that her brother would be released soon. Dalbir Kaur, who met Sarabjit in Kot Lakhpat jail in this eastern Pakistani city on Monday, said she would appeal to the Pakistan government for his release. "I will also try to meet Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik. He...
07:12 PM, Jun 07, 2011
