Everything you need to know about Distt. Jail Po: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Distt. Jail Po: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
New Delhi, May 18 (ANI): A judge in Pakistan, who is investigating the murder of Sarabjit Singh, has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the case to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days.
Panaji, May 18 (IANS) Prison authorities Saturday ordered a probe into a clash between inmates that left three under-trials injured in a Goa jail late Friday.
New Delhi, May 18 (ANI): The government has handed over a promised compensation of Rs.25 lakh to the family of martyred Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh.
Mumbai, May 16 (ANI): Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case for possessing illegal weapons, surrendered before a special TADA court here today.
Mumbai, May 16 (ANI): Actor Sanjay Dutt has finally reached the TADA court where he is slated to surrender.
Mumbai, May 16 (ANI): Actor Sanjay Dutt left his residence here on Thursday afternoon to surrender before a TADA court.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, will surrender before a special TADA court in Mumbai today on Thrusday in regard to his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case for possessing illegal weapons.
Mumbai, May 16 (ANI): Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case for possessing illegal weapons, will surrender before a special TADA court here today.
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) An accused in Dec 16 gang-rape case has been vomiting blood as his "food was being poisoned" over several weeks in Tihar Jail, his lawyer told a fast-track court Wednesday, adding that he was critically ill.
Mumbai, May 15 (IANS) In a sudden development, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt Wednesday withdrew his application seeking to surrender in Pune's Yerawada Jail as he apprehended threats to his life in Mumbai.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has withdrawn his plea to surrender before the Yerawada Jail in Pune instead of the special court in Mumbai. Dutt, who has been convicted in the 1993 bomb blasts case will surrender before the special TADA court in Mumbai
New Delhi, May 15 (ANI): Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 bomb blasts case, has withdrawn his plea to surrender before the Yerawada Jail in Pune instead of the special court in Mumbai.
Bangalore, May 12 (ANI): Asserting that the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has no moral right to continue, senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said the opposition party will start a "Jail Bharo Andolan" from May 27 to June 3 against the Congress-led UPA Government.
New York, May 11 (ANI): A sex education teacher allegedly gave oral sex to her 13-year-old student in the classroom during recess at Bessie Coleman Middle School in Cedar Hill, Texas.
Washington, May 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A woman slapped a sheriff's deputy in the US state of California so that she could get arrested and be put in jail, where she would not be allowed to smoke cigarettes.
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Tihar Jail authorities, in a report to the fast-track court trying the Dec 16 Delhi gang rape case, Friday said the contention of accused Akshay Thakur that he has been beaten and suffered injury on the chest is a highly "fabricated" one.
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Tihar Jail authorities Friday described media reports of attack on a Pakistani prisoner as "false, frivolous and mischievous" and said there was no threat to his life.
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The Tihar Jail authorities Thursday filed a complaint in a Delhi court trying the Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape alleging that accused Akshay Thakur was misbehaving with and harassing fellow inmates. The accused denied the charge.
Los Angeles, May 9 (IANS) Actor Mark Wahlberg says after his jail stint at the age of 16, he decided to change and look for a right path for himself.
New Delhi, May 9 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister on Thursday offered sincere apologies to the family of Pakistan prisoner Sanaullah, who died in a hospital in Chandigarh on Thursday morning, days after being assaulted in Jammu's Kot Bhalwal Jail.
Chandigarh, May 9 (IANS) Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay who was hospitalised here after being attacked in a Jammu jail last week died Thursday morning due to multiple organ failure, doctors said.
Chandigarh, May 9 (IANS) Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay who was in a hospital here after being attacked in a Jammu jail last week died Thursday morning, doctors said.
Chandigarh, May 8 (IANS) Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who is in a hospital here after being attacked in a Jammu jail last week, suffered renal failure Wednesday and doctors said that his condition was "extremely critical".
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court was Tuesday moved seeking direction to the central government to repatriate critically injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay in the interest of "universal justice and equity".
Attari (Punjab), May 7 (IANS) Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay's brother and another relative crossed over into India Tuesday, four days after he was critically injured in an attack by a fellow inmate in Jammu's Kot Bhalwal jail.
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday pulled up Director General (Prisons) Vimla Mehra for a recent clash among inmates in Tihar Jail, which left one person dead and eight others injured.
Chandigarh, May 6 (IANS) Pakistan's High Commissioner Salman Bashir Monday saw Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who is admitted in a critical condition at the PGIMER here, and sought an "impartial probe" into the attack on him.
Srinagar, May 6 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that the enquiry into the attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay in Jammu's Kot Bhalwal Jail will be conducted in a time bound manner.
Lahore, May 6 (ANI): Following the murder of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan and the reciprocal assault on Pakistani convict Sanaullah in India, security in and around all cells housing foreign convicts, especially Indians, has been doubled across the Punjab province.
Jammu, May 4 (IANS) After the murderous attack on a Pakistani prisoner in the Kot Bhalwal Jail here, the 17 other Pakistani prisoners have been moved to separate barracks although all Indian and Pakistani inmates work together under strict vigil, an official said Saturday.
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) A violent clash between inmates of the high-security Tihar Jail here Friday left one dead and eight injured, police said.
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) A violent clash between inmates of the high-security Tihar Jail here Friday left one dead and four injured, police said.
New Delhi, May 3 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee met with Members of Parliament representing the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Friday.
Lucknow, May 3 (IANS) Security for Pakistani prisoners in Uttar Pradesh jails was beefed up Friday following an alert by the state home and prisons department.
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Pakistan Friday demanded immediate release and repatriation of its national Sanaullah, who was attacked in the high-security Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu.
Islamabad, May 3 (ANI): Reacting to the brutal attack and consequent death of Indian convict Sarabjit Singh, an editorial in a Pakistani daily has said that the incident could affect relations between India and Pakistan, making matters worse for the latter whose image has taken a blow internationally.
Bhikiwind (Punjab), May 3 (IANS) Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who died after a murderous attack in a Lahore jail, was cremated at his hometown here Friday amid jostling crowds of tearful mourners.
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) An India-Pakistan judicial panel that visited Lahore's Jinnah Hospital where Sarabjit Singh was under treatment, has recommended that jail authorities
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Jammu/New Delhi May 3 (IANS) A Pakistani prisoner was critically injured Friday when he was attacked by a fellow prisoner in the high security Kot Bhalwal jail here, police said here, a day after Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died after being attacked in Lahore.
Jammu, May 3 (IANS) A Pakistani prisoner was critically injured when he was attacked by a fellow prisoner in the high security Kot Bhalwal jail here, police said Friday, a day after Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died after being attacked in Lahore.
Washington, May 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) American inmates will be shooting for checkmates against Russian prisoners this month in a first-of-its-kind intercontinental chess match between pawn pushers living behind bars in the two countries.
Jammu, May 3 (ANI): Inmates have reportedly attacked a Pakistani prisoner lodged in Jammu's Kot Bhalwal Jail.
Lahore, May 3 (IANS) In strong criticism of the April 26 brutal attack on Sarabjit Singh in Kot Lakhpat jail here, Pakistan's Human Rights Commission said Thursday that "not even the most naive person can believe" that the assault on Sarabjit by prisoners can be executed "without the knowledge and support of prison guards and the authorities".
Chandigarh, May 2 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday declared a three-day state mourning in Punjab following the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan.
Chandigarh, May 2 (IANS) Expressing deep anguish over the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday termed him as a "national martyr who suffered unspeakable repression and torture with dignity".
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Security has been stepped up Tihar Jail in the national capital, India's largest prison, to avoid any attacks on Pakistani inmates in the wake of the brutal assault and death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistan jail.
Washington, May 2 (ANI): A St. Petersburg man has been accused of misusing the 911 system to request that he wanted "Kool-Aid, burgers and weed to be delivered to him."
New Delhi, May 2 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday rejected the opposition charge that the death of Sarabjit Singh is a failure of the country's foreign policy.
Lahore, May 2 (ANI): Three more doctors have been made part of earlier three-member medical board in Lahore who will perform the autopsy of Indian spy Sarabjit Singh on Thursday.
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) The government had been proactive and never missed an opportunity to take up Sarabjit Singh's case, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said Thursday while stressing that this was not the time to "politicise the issue".
Panaji, May 2 (IANS) The Goa legislative assembly condoled the death of Sarabjit Singh, death row prisoner in a Pakistani jail, who died Thursday of wounds sustained in a brutal attack in a Lahore jail.
Lahore, May 2 (ANI): Police have charged two prisoners with the murder of Indian convict Sarabjit Singh who was jailed in Pakistan for espionage, officials have said.
Kolkata, May 2 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Thursday attributed the death of Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh to "bad handling of the case".
Islamabad, May. 2 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Office (FO) has said that the government will continue to facilitate for the early completion of all formalities and hand over the mortal remains of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh to the Indian High Commission at the earliest.
New Delhi, May 2 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday charged the UPA-II Government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of failing miserably in its efforts to get death row Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh back to India on humanitarian grounds.
New Delhi/Amritsar, May 2 (ANI): Family members of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died at the government-run Jinnah Hospital in Lahore early on Thursday morning, have accused the Pakistan Government of a cover-up, and demanded a state funeral for him in India.
New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): Hours after the distraught family members of death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh said that they would be on a hunger strike till New Delhi took steps to get him out of Pakistan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday lashed out at the Congress-led UPA Government for inaction on the issue.
New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): India on Wednesday demanded that Pakistan immediately release comatose prisoner Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds, so that he could benefit from the best available treatment in India.
New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): Asserting that improving relations between India and Pakistan should be paramount, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP Naresh Gujral on Wednesday expressed hope that Islamabad would at least allow Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who is in a comatose state at a Lahore hospital, to be airlifted to New Delhi so that he can receive the best possible treatment.
Wagah Border, May 1 (ANI): The distraught family members of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who is comatose at a Lahore hospital, lashed out at the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre on Wednesday for inaction on the issue and demanded Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's resignation.
Lahore, May. 1 (ANI): Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was severely injured in an attack by inmates in a Pakistan jail, has gone into 'non-reversible' coma and is heading to 'brain death', said the doctors struggling to save his life.
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) A former Indian spy, who languished in Pakistani jails for two decades, Monday called the attack on death row convict Sarabjit Singh in Lahore a "pre-planned" one, carried out with the connivance of the authorities.
Islamabad, Apr. 29 (ANI): The Islamabad High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the notification declaring former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's farmhouse as a sub-jail issued by the chief commissioner.
New Delhi, April 29 (ANI): Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tiwari on Monday demanded both cooperation and speedy action from the Pakistan on the treatment of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh.
Lahore, April 29 (ANI): Indian High Commission officials were allowed a second consular access visit to Sarabjit Singh, the Indian death row prisoner who is in deep coma at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital, on Sunday evening, after initially being denied access.
Attari (Punjab), April 28 (ANI): Family members of comatose Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is in coma after a brutal assault on him by fellow inmates in a Lahore jail, reached Pakistan on Sunday in the evening and met him in Jinnah hospital in Lahore.
Bangalore, April 28 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday urged the UPA-II Government to put pressure on Pakistan to have comatose Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh treated in India.
Peshawar, Apr. 28 (ANI): Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, who reportedly helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden, has gone on hunger strike in Central Jail Peshawar 'in protest against the jail administration's ill-treatment'.
Mumbai, April 28 (IANS) The Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) Sunday sought a high-level independent probe into the recent brutal attack on Sarabjit Singh, an Indian death row prisoner in a Lahore Jail.
Islamabad, April 28 (IANS) The "latest chapter" in the story of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, who was brutally beaten by other prison inmates, "is a sad one", a leading Pakistani daily said Sunday.
New Delhi, April 28 (ANI): Following the violent and brutal assault on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday evening, authorities at Delhi's Tihar Jail have reportedly tightened security around all Pakistani prisoners here to avoid a similar incident.
Amritsar/Lahore/New Delhi, April 28 (ANI): Four members of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's family will travel to Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday, even as the latter has slipped into "deep coma" at the government-run Jinnah Hospital, and continues to remain on ventilator support.
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The vigil has been stepped up in Tihar Jail to pre-empt any attack on Pakistani inmates in the wake of the brutal assault on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail.
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The vigil has been stepped up in Tihar Jail to pre-empt any attack on Pakistani inmates in the wake of the brutal assault on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail.
Amritsar, Apr. 27 (ANI): Four family members of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian national on death row in Pakistan, have been granted visa by the Pakistan High Commission to meet him in Lahore.
New Delhi, April 27 (ANI): Senior leader of Congress party Rashid Masood on Saturday criticised the Pakistan Government over Sarabjit Singh's assault inside a Pakistani prison and said that their government should have been more careful, knowing the gravity of this issue.
Lahore, April 27 (ANI): Indian Embassy officials on Saturday got consular access to death row convict Sarabjit Singh in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Lahore's Jinnah Hospital, where he was admitted after being attacked on Friday by two prisoners in the jail.
Chandigarh, April 27 (ANI): Worried family members of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner on death row in Lahore's KotLakhpat Jail, have said that Friday afternoon's attack on him was a conspiracy to eliminate and kill him.
New York, April 25 (ANI): A woman from Florida was left shocked when her romantic evening ended with her suitor pulling out a gun and jacking her car.
Chandigarh, April 22 (IANS) Three officials of Punjab's Faridkot town jail were injured Monday in a clash with inmates following the death of a prisoner, police said.
Chandigarh, April 22 (IANS) Inmates of the model jail in Punjab's Faridkot town clashed with security officials Monday following the death of an inmate.
Hyderabad, April 15 (IANS) The ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh Monday demanded a high-level probe into allegations that YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy was running his party from Chanchalguda Jail here.
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) A defence counsel representing one of the accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape case here Friday told the court that "innocent boys" had been "falsely implicated" by police in the case.
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a plea by 1993 Delhi bomb blast convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar challenging the rejection of his mercy plea by the president, while noting that the home ministry had failed to alert the president's secretariat of the "dire necessity of deciding the pending mercy petitions".
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) At least 30 inmates of the Tihar Jail here were selected by 15 companies in the fourth campus placement drive conducted by jail authorities Tuesday.
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) At least 30 inmates of Tihar Jail here were selected by 15 companies in the fourth campus placement drive conducted by jail authorities Tuesday.
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The fast track court hearing the Dec 16 Delhi gang-rape case Monday sought a response from Tihar Jail superintendent on an application of accused Akshay Thakur for transfer from Tihar Jail to Rohini Jail.
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) A Tihar Jail official Saturday denied in a Delhi court the allegation that Dec 16 gang-rape accused Vinay Sharma was beaten by inmates while the accused claimed threat to life and refused to return to prison after the hearing.
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The fast track court hearing Delhi gang-rape case has directed a Tihar Jail official to be personally present in the court Saturday to explain how accused Vinay Sharma fractured his hand and if any action had been taken on his allegations that he had been beaten up.
New Delhi, Apr. 5 (ANI): Vinay Sharma, one of the five adult men accused of raping a physiotherapy student on a moving bus in the national capital in December last year, was produced at the fast track court hearing the case with a fractured right hand on Friday.
New Delhi, Mar. 28 (ANI): Pakistan's High Commissioner to India, Salman Bashir, on Thursday said an investigation has been ordered into the death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh, and added that there should be 'no anxiety' over the issue.
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Tihar Jail authorities Friday informed the Delhi High Court that Vishal and Vikas Yadav, convicted in Nitish Katara murder case, will not be shifted from it to a prison in their home state.
Washington, Mar 21 (ANI): Whitney Houston's former husband Bobby Brown, who was sentenced to 55-days of imprisonment, walked out of the prison after serving just nine hours.
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The mother of the murdered youth Nitish Katara Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court against the state government's decision to transfer some convicts, including those sentenced for her son's killing, for the Tihar jail here to prisons in their home states.
New Delhi, Mar. 20 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati, while commenting on the issue of taking or giving commission to support the UPA, on Wednesday exuded confidence in her party and said that it has a clean image.
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met Tihar Jail Director General Vimla Mehra Monday and discussed the security of the prison's inmates.
Peshawar, Mar. 18 (ANI): Two suicide bombers launched an attack within the premises of a judicial complex in Peshawar, killing at least two persons, on Monday.
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) A Delhi court Friday issued production warrants against two alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, lodged in the Tihar Jail here, in Feb 21 Hyderabad twin blasts case.
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Three days after a Delhi gang-rape accused was found hanging inside Tihar Jail here, a 30-year-old female prisoner allegedly committed suicide Thursday afternoon inside the prison, an official said.
