Lahore: Indian prisoner on death row Sarabjit Singh was reportedly attacked by fellow jail inmates in Lahore and has been admitted to hospital after the attack inside Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sarabjit has reportedly received head injuries in the attack and is in critical condition. Pakistan media has reported that Sarabjit was hit with bricks and plates by fellow prisoners while he was moved to another cell. The Indian prisoner also...
07:24 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Chandigarh: Three officials of Punjab's Faridkot town jail were injured on Monday in a clash with inmates following the death of a prisoner, police said. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered a magisterial enquiry. The inmates went on the rampage and damaged property inside the prison, police officials in Faridkot, 250 km from Chandigarh, police said. Police reinforcements and fire brigade had to be rushed into the jail complex...
05:49 AM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: At least 30 inmates of the Tihar Jail here were selected by 15 companies in the fourth campus placement drive conducted by jail authorities on Tuesday. The inmates were selected after they were interviewed by companies at Tihar's Jail No 3. "All the 30 inmates with good character, who would be released in the next six months, were selected by 15 companies after they fulfilled certain criteria laid...
05:44 AM, Apr 10, 2013
There has been another India-Pakistan confrontation, this time over the death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh. Government sources have told CNN-IBN that India has not received any reply from Pakistan on why it took two months to conduct Chamel Singh's autopsy. ...
03:08 PM, Apr 01, 2013
The BJP in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday alleged that the Centre had "not handled properly" the issue of death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh in a Pakistani jail and demanded that his post-mortem report be made public. ...
06:20 PM, Mar 29, 2013
After Indian prisoner Chamel Singh's brutal death in a Lahore jail, an eyewitness has come out and confirmed that Singh was indeed beaten to death by jail authorities. The ex-inmate, Tehsin Khan, who is a lawyer, was in the same jail when Chamel Singh was brutalized and killed. ...
08:27 PM, Mar 28, 2013
An eyewitness tells CNN-IBN, prisoner Chamel Singh was beaten to death by prison guards in Lahore. The Foreign Ministry raises the issue again and Pakistan says a probe is already on. ...
08:00 PM, Mar 28, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party and Panther's Party MLAs held protests at the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Thursday against the alleged torture and death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh in Pakistan. ...
03:28 PM, Mar 28, 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
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 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
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
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
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
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front January 16 said it will soon hold a 48-hour hunger strike in the national capital to highlight the plight of Kashmiri prisoners languishing in different jails in the country. "We will soon hold a 48-hour-long hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to attract attention of the world community towards the plight of Kashmiri prisoners," JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik told reporters here. ...
04:47 PM, Jan 16, 2013
If Pakistan gives clemency to Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, it could prove to be a turning point in bilateral ties, the prisoner's Pakistani lawyer said. Awais Sheikh is arriving in India for a fortnight long tour on Saturday to spread the message that Sarabjit Singh is an innocent man falsely charged with crimes he never committed. His book, "Sarabjit Singh: A Case of Mistaken Identity" (Rajakamal Prakashan), will...
11:56 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Visiting Pakistan Interior Minister met Sarabjit Singh's family and assured them of a visa to meet the jailed Indian prisoner. Sarabjit's sister, Daljit Kaur, said Malik assured he is confident of Sarabjit's release even though it may take time. ...
08:51 AM, Dec 15, 2012
China has launched a new programme for prisoners in Beijing jails under which inmates can place orders online for meals on occasions when they are visited by family, a prison official said on Wednesday. Since prisoners are able to meet their family members in reward for good behaviour, they can now use the prison's intranet to choose the meals they wanted to share with their loved ones, said Feng Jiancang,...
03:19 AM, Dec 13, 2012
The UAE Cabinet on Sunday approved the extradition agreement that the Gulf nation had signed with India for facilitating the transfer of Indian convicts to spend the remaining jail term in their home country. ...
08:19 AM, Dec 10, 2012
