Gangster and former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, who is lodged in Tihar Jail and serving a life term in a murder case, has been tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Over 60 inmates and 11 staff members in the three prison complexes of Delhi are presently undergoing treatment for COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday.
The Delhi police had earlier seized two mobile phones from Tihar jail, which will now be sent to a laboratory for technical investigations, following which, a decision on Akhtar's custody will be made.
Acting on inputs from intelligence agencies, authorities conducted a raid inside Tihar Jail’s high security ward late on Thursday evening and recovered a smartphone from the cell where an Indian Mujahideen terrorist is lodged.
In a new development to the Antilia bomb scare and blast outside Israeli Embassy cases, the Delhi Police Special Cell will question Indian Mujahideen terrorist Tehseen Akhtar alias Monu in Tihar Jail on Saturday after two mobile phones were recovered from his barrack, sources said.
A mobile has been seized from the barrack of Indian Mujahideen terrorist Tehseen Akhtar alias Monu in the high-security Tihar Jail. The mobile was used to create a Telegram channel that claimed the resposibility for Antilia bomb scare.
The crime branch of Delhi police received a complaint from a businessman alleging that he received a phone call on his mobile phone stating that "Shakti" is calling from Tihar Jail, Delhi.
A Delhi court has directed the Tihar Jail authorities to provide security to former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid in the jail premises, after he was sent to 14-days judicial custody in connection with a case relating to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February.
In an ongoing exhibition by the India International Centre and The Village Gallery, that starts September 7, monoprints created by these women inmates are on display. Titled 'A Brush With Hope', they carry an inspirational backstory that are rare to come out from claustrophobic prison cells.
The assistant superintendent, posted at Central Jail Number 7, is a resident of Staff Residential Complex of Tihar Jail.
Tihar Jail on Sunday reported its first coronavirus case after a 45-year assistant superintendent tested positive for the infection. The assistant superintendent Chetram Meena posted at Central Jail No 7, is a resident of Staff Residential Complex of Tihar Jail.
An undertrial prisoner at Tihar Jail has accused the prison staff of “using him” to the pass around mobile phones to other inmates. The prison officials, however, refuted the allegation.
A woman accused of killing her in-laws has committed suicide in Tihar jail. The woman along with her husband was accused in a double murder case ended her life by choking herself. Further investigation in the case is underway, police informed.
People gathered outside the Tihar Jail for the 'Nirbhaya Day'.
Nirbhaya's parents did a countdown as the time of the execution of the four convicts neared. This is the first time that four men have been hanged together in Tihar Jail. The executions were carried out after the convicts exhausted every possible legal avenue to escape the gallows.
The Nirbhaya gangrape case pertains to the brutal gang-rape and killing of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012, by six people including a juvenile in the national capital.
With just five days left for the execution of death sentence in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Tihar Jail authorities on Sunday said they have asked the hangman to report three days ahead of the scheduled hanging.
Delhi's Tihar Prison authorities had made all necessary preparations for the hanging of four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape-and-murder case which was scheduled for Tuesday, officials said Monday.
The dummy execution was carried out just after the news broke that President Ram Nath Kovind rejected Pawan Gupta's mercy petition.
One of the death row convicts of 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, Vinay Sharma attempted to hurt himself by banging his head against a wall in Tihar jail cell, on February 16. All the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape case will be hanged on March 3 at 6 am.
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