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'Received no fasting request from Satyendar Jain': Tihar
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Abhijeet Shankar, the lawyer for Tihar administration, made it clear that dry fruits are not permitted to a prisoner and, hence, could not be taken as an alternative to a regular meal, behind bars.
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India repatriates Pakistani intruder after completion of 10 years jail ter
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Speaking to ANI, Arunpal said that the name of the Pakistani national who has been released after completion of the jail term is Kala Massi.
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Satyendar Jain was getting massage from a rape-accused, not a physiotherap
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Tihar Jail official sources claimed that the prisoner, identified as Rinku, was "not a physiotherapist" and has been charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.
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9 inmates escape from jail in Nagaland's Mon, search operation launched
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
As many as nine inmates of a district jail escaped in Nagaland's Mon, following which a massive search operation was launched to nab the fled prisoner, according to an official on Sunday.
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Drug addiction grows in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Citing the same report, the Dawn newspaper last month said that the number of these addicts is increasing at the rate of 40,000 per year, making Pakistan one of the most drug-affected countries in the world.
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Myanmar junta to release four foreign prisoners in amnesty
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The amnesty will release 5,744 prisoners to mark Myanmar's National Day. And among them, Sean Turnell, an Australian economist who has been detained since the regime seized power in February 2021, and Vicky Bowman, a former British ambassador to Myanmar who was arrested in August will als
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"No possibility": Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Nalini Sriharan on me
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Sriharan, who is the longest-serving woman prisoner serving a life sentence in the country, was released from the Vellore jail on Saturday following an order from the Supreme Court on Friday, freeing all six convicts, including RP Ravichandran, in the case.
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Thankful to people of TN: Rajiv case convict Nalini after release
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The country's longest serving woman prisoner serving a life sentence, Nalini was released from the Vellore jail following an order from the Supreme Court on friday, freeing all six convicts, including Nalini Sriharan and RP Ravichandran, in the case.
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Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict Nalini Sriharan walks free
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Visuals on social media saw Nalini, the longest serving woman prisoner in India at 31 years, being taken to complete her release formalities at Vellore jail.
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45 Ukrainian soldiers set free in prisoner swap with Russia
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In a tweet, the official, Andriy Yermak wrote, "Another POWs swap. We managed to free 45 AFU soldiers and get back to Ukraine the bodies of two fallen defenders. Thanks to the Coordinating Staff on the Treatment of Prisoners of War. We are going on. Our people will return home."
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PIL in Delhi HC against overcrowding of prisoners in Tihar Jail
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The plea stated that the number of inmates in Tihar Jail had exceeded the actual capacity of each barrack and it is on record that there is a huge increment in the total population of inmates in the Complex.
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SC notice to Centre, Election Commission on PIL backing prisoners' right t
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A bench of Chief Justice of India UU Lalit and Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi sought response from the government and Election Commission of India on plea challenging Section 62(5) of the Representation of People Act which deprives prisoners their right to vote.
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