The Punjab Government on Sunday suspended seven jail officials and arrested five of them for negligence on duty over a gang fight in which two gangsters were killed inside Goindwal jail on Feb 26.
Indian Secular Front leader and Bhangar MLA Naushad Siddiqui, who had been lodged in jail for the past 42 days, was finally released on Saturday morning.
For over two decades, Uyghur woman, Ayshemhan Abdulla, has been serving sentence in jail for sending her three teenage children to a local home-based religious school, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported.
In a sensitive move, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday sought a report for the release of very old prisoners and seriously ill convicts serving life imprisonment in the state jails.
The Supreme Court reserved an order on the bail pleas of Bhima Koregaon case accused Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, lodged in jail since August 2018.
Three out of four persons, accused in the rape and murder case of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras, were released from the Aligarh district jail on Friday, a day after they were acquitted by a special court in Uttar Pradesh.
In the wake of illegal and unauthorised telephone communication inside the jails in the national capital, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has constituted a high-level committee for addressing the issue and to submit recommendations within a month.