Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has approved the draft notification for amendment in Delhi Prison Rules 2018 that will pave the way for pre-mature release of "incapacitated prisoners" undergoing a fixed-term imprisonment in Delhi Jails, said an official release.
Sanghvi said that those inmates who are elderly, who have maintained "good behaviour in jail" in the last 14 years, and those who engaged in "social service" while in prison or duly obeyed all rules in jail, stand a chance of being released.
Ahead of 'pranpratishtha' ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, UP Prison Minister Dharmveer Prajapati raised the idea of inclusivity and making arrangements so that even the prisoners can watch the live telecast of the event.
In the largest prisoner exchange, since Russia's invasion of Ukraine started in February 2022, hundreds of prisoners of war were exchanged between Kyiv and Moscow on Wednesday.
The Taliban-appointed Foreign Relations Minister in Nimroz, Yar Mohammad Haqyar, announced the release of prisoners and emphasised that the prisoners were released as a result of the efforts of officials from the Taliban embassy in Tehran and the Afghan consulate in Zahedan.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday raided multiple locations across Bengaluru, Karnataka, in a case relating to radicalization of prisoners by a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist.
The lawyers of jailed Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, have not heard from him for around a week and his name is also missing from the list of the prisoners, CNN reported.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to exchange prisoners and work towards normalising relations and reaching a peace agreement to end their decades-long conflict, according to CNN.
During the truce, 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, including 81 Israelis, 23 Thai nationals and 1 Filipino, in exchange for 210 Palestinian prisoners, all of them women or minors. Israel also allowed an influx of humanitarian aid into the Strip, The Times of Israe