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Disturbing health crisis among women in Afghan prisons: UN report
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Highlighting the situation of Afghan women in prisons in a recent report, the United Nations has said that the women who are under confinement are having a detrimental impact on their health, Khaama Press reported.
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Tamil Nadu: 15 fishermen reach Chennai airport after being released from S
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Fifteen fishermen who were released from Sri Lankan prisons reached Chennai airport on Tuesday.
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Hamas and Israel nearing agreement on hostage release, pending Israeli app
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Israel is said to be evaluating the proposal, which entails a three-to-five-day halt in fighting, an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, and the release of an unspecified number of women and children held in Israeli prisons.
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor approves creation of 10 additional posts in IT c
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
This move will ease the workload caused by the modernisation of Prisons and digitization of records of prisoners, said a press release by LG office.
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Delhi Prisons get devices from US-based firm to detect hidden mobiles
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
With an aim to improve security inside the Tihar Jail, the administration has purchased 10 nonlinear junctions from a US-based firm, which will be able to detect mobile phones or SIM cards from the prisoners lodged in the Jail.
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Delhi HC Legal Services Committee inaugurates legal literacy program for i
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee in collaboration with Tihar Prisons launched its flagship program for the benefit of the inmates of Prisons, named "Kanooni Saksharta - Sabka Adhikar" from Tihar Jail, New Delhi on Saturday.
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Uttarakhand govt to hike minimum wages of prisoners employed in prison lab
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
In the first meeting of the Jail Development Board at the Secretariat under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the Uttarakhand government has decided to increase the minimum wage rates of prisoners employed as labour in prisons, said an official statement from the govern
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'Ganja', cell phones among contraband most frequently smuggled into prison
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
'Ganja' and cell phones are the common contraband items that are most frequently smuggled into the prisons among others, the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs raised alarm in its recent report.
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Pakistan court allows remission to prisoners convicted in drug cases befor
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The ruling came during the hearing of three petitions filed by convicts who challenged the withholding of remissions to them by the authorities of respective prisons in the light of amendments made in the Control of Narcotics Substance Act (CNSA), 1997, last year.
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Late Madhumita Shukla’s sister urges Governor to put stay on Amarmani Trip
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Calling Amarmani a ‘mastermind’ behind the poetess’ murder, Nidhi Shukla alleged that she could get killed in these eight weeks- the next hearing date of the case.
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'Orders given based on prison policies': UP Prisons Minister on premature
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The release of prisoners are based on prison policies and on the conduct of inmates, said Uttar Pradesh Prisons and Home Guard Minister Dharamveer Prajapati after the Supreme Court issued a notice on plea filed against premature release of poetess Madhumita Shukla murder convicts.
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Madhumita murder case: UP Prisons Administration dept issues order for rel
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Uttar Pradesh Prisons Administration department has issued an order to release former minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani Tripathi, who are serving life imprisonment after being convicted in the murder case of poetess Madhumita Shukla.
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