Afzal Guru has been buried inside the Tihar jail complex, a prison official told PTI on Saturday. "He (Guru) was buried near jail number three," he added. This was similar to the case of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was buried in Pune's Yerwada jail soon after his execution. ...
11:48 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged this morning, walked to the gallows in a peaceful and composed frame of mind. "He was very peaceful and calm during the final moments. He looked very composed," a top Tihar Jail official told PTI. ...
10:31 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been hanged. The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist was hanged at 8 am on Saturday, Home Secretary RK Singh said. A recommendation to hang him had been sent to the President on January 21. The President gave it his assent on February 3. Announcing the details, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the final decision to hang Afzal Guru was taken on February 8 and he...
08:32 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been hanged. The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist was hanged at 6.25 am on Saturday. A recommendation to hang him had been sent to the President on January 23. The President gave it his assent on January 26. ...
08:19 AM, Feb 09, 2013
A melodious voice, a sweet six-string riff, a beautiful jugalbandi on tabla - The music launch of their album is like any other, however, with one difference. The musicians are all prisoners and the performance is in Tihar Jail. Meet the Tihar Idols, who have launched their first album, a first from inside a jail. ...
10:06 AM, Feb 01, 2013
A contractual employee at the Tihar jail was arrested for allegedly operating an extortion racket on the directions of an inmate, police said on Tuesday. Arun Kumar, 27, who works as a compounder on contractual basis, was running the racket on the directions of Amit Shukla, who is currently in the jail. ...
08:25 PM, Jan 29, 2013
A serial killer, who would dump headless bodies of his victims near Tihar jail during 2006-07 and dare the cops to nab him, was today convicted by a Delhi court for the offences of murder and destruction of evidence. 44-year-old Chandrakant Jha, a native of Madhepura in Bihar, faces death penalty after Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau held him guilty of killing three persons in separate cases, relying on...
08:39 PM, Jan 24, 2013
A Delhi court has extended by two weeks the judicial custody of a youth and his cousin, arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl after befriending her on a social networking site. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 18, 2013
A woman Delhi Police constable posted at Tihar Jail was found dead on Thursday on a railway track in Ghaziabad, police said. ...
03:25 AM, Jan 18, 2013
The last place you'd expect a music album to be launched is Tihar Jail. But come later this year, that's exactly what is going to happen. Tihar's inmates have become the first, worldwide to cut a commercial music album from inside a jail. ...
08:59 AM, Jan 09, 2013
A differently-abled woman was allegedly raped by an employee of the Sadar hospital here in Bihar's East Champaran district, police said on Sunday. Acting on the complaint of locals, District Civil Surgeon Saroj Singh lodged an FIR against Ram Sakal Ram in the town police station, Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar said. ...
08:54 PM, Dec 30, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman will walk out of Tihar Jail on Friday evening after Delhi High Court granted him bail in the fake arms deal case on Thursday. Bangaru had been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison after he was caught on camera taking a bribe of Rs one lakh in April 2012. Bangaru was released on a Rs 50,000 bail bond. 72-year-old Bangaru was...
07:57 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The 26/11 key handler and LeT terrorist Abu Jundal was on Thursday remanded in judicial custody by a Delhi court after the Mumbai ATS produced him before it saying he was no longer wanted for his interrogation in cases registered against him in Maharashtra. Jundal was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Parkash by the Mumbai ATS and was sent to Tihar Jail. Mumbai ATS had secured his...
02:42 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Patna: Eighteen policemen - seven inspectors and 11 constables - were suspended on Sunday for failing to prevent the attacks on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's cavalcade during his Adhikar Yatra. The Bihar police on Saturday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a superintendent of police, to probe the protests. The SIT filed an FIR against 75 named and 600 unknown people. There were protests in Motihari, Begusarai and...
01:21 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Katihar (Bihar): BJP MLC Ashok Kumar Agrawal charged with the killing of an employee of a petrol pump owned by him at Mirchaibari in the town, has been arrested. A police team took him to the police station from his residence on Sunday night and formally arrested him, official sources said. He was produced on Monday in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate RN Tripathy who remanded him to...
11:23 AM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Businessman Abhishek Verma, an accused in the naval war room leak, on Saturday failed to appear in a Delhi court for recording his evidence in a cheating and defamation case filed by him against his former partner based in the US. Verma filed the case against his former partner and US-based lawyer C Edmonds Allen and former Indian partner Arjun Arora. Verma, along with his Romanian wife Anca...
10:13 AM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: Giving in to the demands of Bihar, the Union government has decided to set up a central university in Motihari in addition to the one proposed in Gaya, ending a prolonged slugfest over the issue. "I have given the approval for establishment of a central university in Motihari and I am happy that the issue has been resolved," HRD Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters on Friday. HRD Ministry...
05:48 PM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: An undertrial prisoner has alleged that two inmates sexually abused him inside Tihar jail and a case has been registered in this regard following a court direction, police said on Sunday. The 32-year-old victim, who is lodged in Tihar jail number 5, claimed that he had an argument with a jail official in May. He alleged that an inmate and the official demanded money from him and when...
09:27 PM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: Tihar Prisons will conduct its fifth campus placement on Friday for its inmates with companies involved in packing services and footwear set to participate in the selection process. As many as 14 companies including Agarwal Packers and Movers, Relaxo footwear, Frontline Group, ABC constructions, Adecco Consultant, Ashwords Network and Jyoti Portfolio Limited will select candidates from 24 convicts. In four successful campus placements conducted last year and in...
08:10 PM, May 24, 2012
After spending over a year in jail, former Telecom Minister A Raja, an accused in the 2G scam case, is finally out on bail. ...
11:06 PM, May 15, 2012
