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Lalu Prasad may walk out of jail as Covid-19 surges
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], April 7 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad, who is serving a seven-year sentence in a Ranchi jail in connection with the fodder scam, may soon be released on parole amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis in the country.
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Jail inmates in UP make 3 lakh masks to prevent spread of coronavirus: DG
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 4 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Director General (Prisons) Anand Kumar on Saturday commended jail inmates across the state for their effort in making masks to combat coronavirus.
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Iran temporarily frees 100,000 prisoners to limit spread of Coronavirus
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Tehran[Iran], Mar 29 (Sputnik/ANI): A total of 100,000 inmates have been temporarily freed from Iranian prisons as of Sunday to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, a judiciary spokesman has said.
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Combating Corona: UP to release 11,000 prisoners to decongest prisons
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh is set to release around 11,000 prisoners due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis that India is grappling with.
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COVID-19: Punjab to give parole to 6000 prisoners from jails to decongest
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Mar 26 (ANI): To decongest prisons in wake of COVID-19, Punjab is giving parole to 6000 prisoners from jails across the state, these are prisoners who were sentenced to less than seven years in prison, said Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Punjab Jail Minister on Thurs
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No visitor allowed to meet prisoners for next two weeks in TN due to coron
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Mar 17 (ANI): As a precautionary measure to combat the spread of coronavirus, no visitor or family members will be allowed to meet prisoners in Tamil Nadu for the next two weeks, said DGP Prisons Sunil Kumar Singh on Tuesday.
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About 1,500 inmates escape from Brazilian prisons amid COVID-19 outbreak:
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Brasilia [Brazil], Mar 17 (Sputnik/ANI): Approximately 1,500 inmates have escaped from at least four semi-open penitentiaries in the Brazilian region of Sao Paulo following riots against the measures taken by the government to fight the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, several local media
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Kerala jails to set up isolation cells for suspected coronavirus-infected
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Mar 10 (ANI): In the wake of six positive Covid-19 cases reported from Kerala, the state's Director General of Prisons Rishi Raj Singh has issued a directive to set up isolation cells in the jails across the state.
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Will operate 'Jail Radio' in all 70 prisons by mid- 2021, says DG Prison U
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 11 (ANI): Director-General Prison Anand Kumar on Monday said that the administration "intends" to cover all the 70 prisons of the state and operate 'Jail Radio' in all of them by mid- 2021.
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Former IPS gets 5-yr jail in MP job scam case
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 17 (ANI): A local special court on Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Rajendra Chaturvedi to five years of imprisonment for taking bribe for recruiting of jail wardens when he was the additional director general (prisons).
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Request received from Tihar authorities for providing two hangmen for Jan
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 10 (ANI): Additional Director General (Prisons) of Uttar Pradesh Police, Anand Kumar on Thursday stated that they have received a request from Tihar Jail authorities for providing services of two hangmen for January 22 execution of four convicts.
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Leaked documents reveal details of China's clampdown on Uighurs,other Musl
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Nov 17 (ANI): China put a million or more Uighurs and other Muslim minorities into detention camps and prisons in Xinjiang over the last three years under President Xi Jinping's directives to "show absolutely no mercy" in the struggle against terrorism, infiltration and
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