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'Phone-free Tihar' target for 2023, says DG Prisons
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Tihar DG Sanjay Beniwal said that the staff will be more vigilant and proactive, from now onwards, to stop the use of mobile phones.
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Mobile phones, knives, drugs recovered from inmates after surprise raids i
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Mobile phones and knives were recovered from inside Delhi's Tihar Jail number 3 in a search operation as informed by the jail officials.
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Uttar Pradesh's Dasna Jail launches radio station for prisoners' education
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Dasna Jail in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad has started a radio station for prisoners. Music and topics related to spiritual, educational and entertainment are played on the radio. The radio station is operated by the inmates themselves who are skilled in doing so.
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Chhattisgarh woodcraft artist, who gave undertrials new lives, gets Padma
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Chhattisgarh's Ajay Mandavi, who teaches wood calligraphy art to jail inmates, has been honoured with the fourth highest civilian award, Padam Shri, by the Union government for excellence in art.
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Delhi LG launches skill training programmes for prison inmates, aims to en
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Friday launched a skill-development programme for the training of 1020 inmates, a press note from Raj Niwas said.
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Child prisoners stab security personnel to death in Bihar's Chapra, probe
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The inmates of juvenile prison in Bihar's Chapra allegedly stabbed a police security personnel to death on Saturday, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Saran Police, Vikas Kumar said.
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Keep jail inmates inclined towards propagating radicalization ideology in
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a direction to the prison administration of all states and the Union Territories (UTs) to pay special attention to ensuring that "inmates inclined towards propagating the ideology of radicalization and those who have the propensity and potential t
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Now, all inmates of Delhi prisons to get hot water, prisoners above 65 to
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena has issued instructions to DG (Prison) and the Pr. Secretary (Home) to immediately make hot water available to all inmates in Delhi prisons and to provide a mattress to prisoners above 65 years of age.
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Death toll from Mexican prison attack rises to 17, 25 inmates escaped
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Mexican jail attack left 17 dead, 14 injured and 25 escaped inmates, including Ernesto Alfredo Pinon De la Cruz, alias "El Neto", leader of the criminal group "Los Mexicles".
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10 security guards, 4 inmates killed in attack on Mexican border prison
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"So far, the investigative authority has documented the death of 14 people, including 10 prison security and custody officers and 4 people deprived of liberty," the Chihuahua Prosecutor's Office reported.
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Delhi Police seeks time to file reply on Sharjeel's plea seeking resumptio
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Delhi police on Tuesday sought time to file a reply on the plea moved by Sharjeel seeking the resumption of the Inmate phone calling facility provided to him in Tihar jail earlier. The facility was stopped in September after a circular issued by the jail authorities.
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Plea moved against overcrowding of prisoners in Tihar withdrawn from Delhi
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Plea stated that the number of inmates in Tihar Jail has exceeded the actual capacity of each Barrack and it is on record that there is a huge rise in the total number of inmates in the said Complex.
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