According to the General Consulate of Afghanistan in Karachi, Pakistan, 66 prisoners, including eight children, were released on Wednesday in Sindh's Karachi.
As the murder of dreaded gangster Tillu Tajpuriya inside Delhi's Tihar jail has raised many questions on the security of the central Jail, the jail administration will now investigate the lapse in the case of Tajpuria, the source said on Friday.
The family members of the arrested members of 'Waris Punjab De', lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh Central Jail, arrived here from Punjab on Thursday and met them in jail.
A single bench of Justice D K Paliwal rejected the bail application on Tuesday. A total of seven petitions were presented before the court in which six petitions were rejected and decision of one petition was reserved.
The Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested two persons for allegedly framing actor Chrisann Pereira in a narcotics case by giving her a memento (trophy) that had drugs hidden in it and asking her to deliver it to someone in Sharjah.
"All three shooters, Arun Maurya, Sunny Singh and Lovelesh Tiwari, are under threat of attack behind bars, owing to which they have been shifted to a high-security cell and are kept under CCTV surveillance," official sources said.
The prisoners are being made literate under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (education for all) campaign of the Indian government. There are about 6900 inmates who became literates in the last one year.
Reacting to the row created after Acharya sat in the chair, Bhopal Central Jail Superintendent Rakesh Bhangre told ANI, "Acharya sat on the chair on my request. He is my Guru and his place is higher than that of God. I consider myself very fortunate that I have been able to worship him."
"She had come to Madurai to attend a conference on December 17 and 18. She arrived at Madurai airport on the night of December 16 and rented a room in a lodge. On December 17, she fell ill during the conference and informed Anus Jain, who was staying in the next room," the Madurai police sai
A day after being arrested by Punjab Police, Papalpreet Singh, a close aide of fugitive Khalistan leader and 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh was brought to Assam's Dibrugarh Central Jail on Tuesday.