Four COVID-positive jail inmates, who were taken to a hospital for treatment, ran away on Sunday evening in this Uttar Pradesh district but the police managed to nab three of them.
Meanwhile, eight of the 15 prisoners, who had been released on parole from Pilibhit district jail on April 29, following the state government's orders, have gone missing and did not return to jail.
Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh says his 2009 prison drama, Jail, is the only project where he used the method acting approach.
Mumbai: Actor Rhea Chakraborty released from Byculla jail after a month. She was granted bail by Bombay High Court in a drug-related case filed against her by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
The Gauhati High Court has ordered the Assam government to provide the best treatment to prisoners who have tested positive for COVID-19 after suo motu cognisance of the rising number of cases inside the jails. Total 535 inmates have been infected by coronavirus in 10 jails across the state, and of the highest 435 were from Guwahati, Assam Inspector General of Prisons Dasarath Das said.
A prisoner escaped from a district hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district on June 7.
Amid the rising number of coronavirus cases in the national capital, 15 inmates and one official tested positive for coronavirus in Rohini jail. The jail authorities had conducted the COVID-19 test of 19 inmates who had shared barracks with a coronavirus positive inmate.
An inmate of Rohini Jail in Delhi has tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday. According to Delhi Prisons DG Sandeep Goel, this is the first case of an inmate at a Delhi prison testing positive. Goel said: “The inmate was admitted at Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital for an intestine surgery on May 10. He was tested for the virus there."
It is possible for ordinary citizens to practice social distancing but it's hard to enforce such measures in jails. Indian jails are overcrowded already
An Indian-origin man in Singapore was on Wednesday sentenced to seven months in prison for verbally abusing police and safe-distancing enforcement officers who were urging compliance with the COVID-19 measures. Ravi Sinathamby Subramaniam, 53, pleaded guilty to two charges of verbally abusing police and health officers, and a third charge of threatening to "break" the faces of three health officers.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday approved a series of measures to make jails more secure, including AI-enabled CCTV systems, live wire fencing and creation of a separate prison intelligence wing.
Now the question arises -- 'What's wrong with the high-budget Delhi prisons that have far better facilities as compared to other jails across the country?'.
The judge of the fast track court, Ankur Sharma, also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on the accused after holding him guilty under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code
Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's counsel in the Supreme Court on Friday again told the court that the ex-minister has lost weight inside Tihar Jail.
Akeel says that all religions preach good things. He has been reading books in jail and being a Muslim, his preference has been the books concerning his religion. But, now he has come across the Gita and will read it. He says that he will try to understand the teachings and accept them if he likes them.
One wall and the roof of the historical 240 square-ft jail room in which Nehru, K Santhanam and A T Gidwani were kept on September 22, 1923 collapsed on Wednesday following heavy rains, Faridkot Senior Superintendent of Police Rajbachan Singh Sandhu said.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz has released a video clip purportedly showing an accountability court judge allegedly confessing that he was "blackmailed and forced" to convict former premier Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case.
Two prisoners escaped from the Etawah district jail in Uttar Pradesh by climbing the boundary wall early Sunday, with police saying one of them died after he was apparently run over by a train.
The inmates even made video clips of the incident on their cellphones and posted them live on Facebook.
State Minister Siddharth Nath Singh on Thursday said that the government will take strict action against the inmates who are breaking rules inside the Unnao jail.
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