There seem to be no rules for VIP inmates at Delhi's high profile Tihar Jail. Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's son Ajay Chautala addressed a rally from inside his cell using his mobile phone. ...
01:13 PM, Feb 25, 2013
An oil painting of Anna Hazare by an inmate of India's largest prison Tihar earned him Rs 20,000 in an exhibition, said jail officials. ...
02:20 AM, Feb 23, 2013
The Delhi High Court will hear on Friday former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala's appeal against his conviction and 10 years sentence for illegally recruiting 3,206 junior teachers 12 years ago. ...
08:50 AM, Feb 15, 2013
The wife of Afzal Guru, who was hanged and buried in Tihar jail last week, has said she had full right over his body and demanded that the mortal remains be handed over to her for "proper burial" in his home state of Jammu and Kashmir. ...
11:18 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Curfew continued for the sixth day in the old city areas of Srinagar on February 14, even as authorities decided to extend curfew relaxation in many other towns of the valley. Curfew was imposed in parts of the state after Afzal Guru, convicted in the parliament attack case of December 2001, was hanged to death in the Tihar Central Jail in the national capital on Feb 9, even before his...
01:14 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Amid widespread criticism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed his displeasure to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde over the delay in informing Afzal Guru's family about his hanging. ...
07:41 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Curfew was lifted from three police station areas in the city while it was relaxed "indefinitely" in five other police station areas even as rest of Kashmir Valley remained under restrictions for the fifth consecutive day on February 13. "Curfew has been lifted from Nigeen, Lal Bazaar and Zakura police station areas in the city," a police spokesman said. ...
12:04 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Home Secrertary RK Singh on Tuesday said that the family of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged and buried in Tihar Jail in Delhi on February 9, will be allowed to offer prayers at his grave. "No problem if Afzal's family come to Tihar and pray at his grave," he said. ...
02:41 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Government will consider any request by the family of Afzal Guru to visit his grave inside the Tihar jail here where he was buried after his hanging on Saturday, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Monday. "If they want to go (to the grave), it can be considered," Shinde said. ...
04:42 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Afzal Guru wrote his last letter to his wife a few hours before his execution code named Operation Three Star, Tihar Jail officials said on Monday. ...
12:28 AM, Feb 12, 2013
There is likely to be long term alienation in Kashmir after Afzal Guru's hanging has said Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah sounding a not of deep worry anger and anxiety. ...
11:58 PM, Feb 11, 2013
'Operation Three Star' was the code name of the entire top secret plan in which Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Afzal Guru was hanged in the high-security Tihar Jail on Saturday morning. The operation had started on February 4, a day after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected the mercy petition of the Parliament attack convict paving the way for his execution. ...
09:29 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Hours before he was to be executed, Afzal Guru penned his last letter to his wife, Tihar Jail officials said on Monday. The letter, written in Urdu, was posted on Saturday but is yet to reach his wife in Kashmir. Speaking to IANS, officials at Tihar jail said that Afzal Guru, convicted for his role in the 2001 Parliament attack, was told on February 8 evening that he would be...
07:15 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Pakistan on February 11 reacted cautiously to the execution of Afzal Guru, hanged for his role in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, saying it did not want to "go into details" of his trial. ...
02:40 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Afzal Guru's belongings like books, clothes, spectacles and a radio are likely to be returned to his family by authorities of Tihar Jail where the Parliament attack convict was hanged in an operation shrouded in secrecy. ...
09:39 PM, Feb 10, 2013
A day after the Parliament attack convict was hanged inside Tihar Jail in the national capital, more questions are being raised on whether the family of Afzal Guru was deliberately kept in the dark about the government's decision. While the government has claimed to have sent the information about the execution to Guru's family in advance, his family and relatives have maintained that they got to know about the hanging...
07:59 PM, Feb 10, 2013
More than 24 hours after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged inside Tihar jail, the prison officials have reportedly said that they are yet to receive the acknowledgment receipt of the speed post, through which the government claimed to have sent information to Afzal's family about his execution. This has a raised questions on the credibility of the government's claims that the family had been informed ahead of the...
01:24 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 am on Saturday in front of eight people in the Tihar Jail in a procedure that took eight minutes, prison sources said on Saturday. ...
12:58 AM, Feb 10, 2013
The family of Afzal Guru, who was hanged in Tihar Jail on Saturday, sought permission from the authorities to perform his last rites in accordance with religious traditions. Guru's body was buried inside the jail premises, said officials. ...
05:33 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Jaish-e-Mohammad militant Afzal Guru, who was hanged on Saturday for his role in the deadly terror attack on Parliament in 2001, was remorseless when he was taken to the gallows in the morning. Senior Tihar Jail officials who oversaw the entire preparation for hanging of Guru said he was "very peaceful" and "calm" during the final moments and did not appear repentant. ...
02:56 PM, Feb 09, 2013
