Everything you need to know about Tihar: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Tihar: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
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.
New Delhi, May 12 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has granted 13 days parole to Santosh Kumar Singh, prime accused in the Priyadarshini Mattoo rape and murder case, to appear in his LLM examination.
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 10 (IANS) With Delhi Police chief Neeraj Kumar set to retire end-July, a replacement is being actively sought and three names - including of two women - are doing the rounds.
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.
New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): Punjab militant Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's wife has appealed to the Supreme Court seeking a stay on his execution.
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) A Delhi court, hearing the Dec 16 gang-rape case, Monday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to file a detailed report on the death of Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the sensational crime.
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.
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 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the plea of Haryana's former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala seeking to put on hold the telecast of TV serial "Crime Patrol Dastak" episode on teachers recruitment scam for which he was convicted and jailed.
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.
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.
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.
Mumbai, April 26 (IANS) The war of the Charles Sobhraj epics has just begun. Even as DAR Motion Pictures have acquired the rights to film Farrukh Dhondy's book "Bikini Murders", allegedly based on the life and crimes of Charles Sobhraj, news comes that another Sobhraj film is all set to go on the floors this July.
New Delhi, April 17 (ANI): Defence counsel for Mukesh, one of the four adult accused in the brutal Delhi gang rape case, filed a petition for the transfer of the case on Wednesday as he believed that his client would not get justice in the national capital.
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) A fast track Delhi court Tuesday warned advocate M.L. Sharma, defence counsel representing accused Mukesh in the Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape, for his repeated failure to appear in hearings.
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Former Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner K.S. Mehra Monday lodged a complaint against his ex-wife Vimla Mehra, who is Tihar Prison director general, accusing her of trying to extort money and property from him, police said Monday.
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) A Delhi court Monday sent four men, who allegedly killed BSP leader and business tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj, to two weeks' judicial custody.
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 12 (IANS) Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, whose petition challenging the rejection of his mercy plea by the president was dismissed by the Supreme Court in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case, is undergoing treatment at a mental health institute, the office of his lawyer, K.T.S. Tulsi, said Friday.
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) A 28-year-old criminal was arrested here Thursday for firing at and injuring a police constable and a woman a day earlier, an official said.
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, 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.
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.
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 15 (IANS) The parliament resolution rejecting Pakistan's "interference in the internal affairs of India" would give a clear message to Islamabad on New Delhi's unity and sovereignty, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Friday.
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) India's external affairs ministry has cancelled the upcoming bilateral hockey series against Pakistan, it was announced here Friday.
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.
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 committed suicide Thursday afternoon inside the prison.
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The CPI-M said Thursday that the Italian refusal to send back its two marines to face the Indian law was linked to India's hunger for foreign investment.
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) A fast-track Delhi court hearing the Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape case Wednesday abated proceedings against prime accused Ram Singh as he is dead.
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) A special watch has been mounted on the four others accused in the Delhi gang-rape in Tihar Jail following the alleged suicide of the main accused, an official said Tuesday.
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The death of Ram Singh, the alleged prime accused of the Dec 16, 2012 Delhi gang-rape, would not affect the case, said police Tuesday.
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Ram Singh, the alleged mastermind of the Delhi gang-rape, died due to hanging in Tihar Jail, a doctor who took part in the autopsy said Tuesday.
Footage of a Tihar Jail CCTV camera will be available for scrutiny during a magisterial inquiry ordered into the alleged suicide Monday by Ram Singh, the main accused of the Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape case, a prison official said...................
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Cyberspcace was abuzz Monday with outrage that Delhi gang-rape accused Ram Singh was "allowed" to commit suicide in Tihar Jail and said that he should have been hanged.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Terming the death of a prime accused in the Delhi gangrape case in Tihar Jail as a "major lapse", Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Monday said preliminary information suggested that he had committed suicide.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The suicide by prime Delhi gang-rape accused Ram Singh, as alleged by police, sprung a spate of questions Monday, such as how he got hold of the accessories for committing the act and the ignorance of his cell mates, with the silence of the authorities fuelling further doubt and speculation.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Ram Singh, the alleged mastermind of the Delhi gang-rape that shook India, reportedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail here Monday morning. His family alleged he was murdered.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Delhi's Tihar Jail, which houses over 12,000 prisoners, counted the first suicide in 2013 when Ram Singh, the prime accused in the Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape case allegedly hanged himself Monday morning, an official said.
Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) The BJP Monday demanded an impartial probe into the alleged suicide in the Tihar Jail of the main accused in the Delhi gang-rape of Dec 16.
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday admitted that Delhi gang-rape accused Ram Singh's death under mysterious circumstances inside Tihar jail was a major security lapse.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Monday said the alleged suicide in the Tihar Jail by the main accused in the Delhi gang-rape was a "major lapse".
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Ram Singh, the main accused in the Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman committed suicide in Delhi's Tihar Jail Monday morning. Here is a timeline of events since the brutal incident.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Ram Singh, the man who was believed to be the principal perpetrator of the Dec 16 gang-rape in the capital, reportedly committed suicide in Delhi's high security Tihar Jail Monday, police said. His family alleged he was murdered.
New Delhi, Mar. 11 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday sought an explanation from the Congress-led UPA Government over the alleged suicide by Ram Singh, one of the key accused in the December 16 gang-rape case.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The defence lawyer in the Dec 16 brutal gang-rape incident Monday demanded a full-fledged inquiry into the "suicide" of his client Ram Singh Monday morning, claiming that there was "foul play" in the case.
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): Delhi gang rape accused Ram Singh's father on Monday claimed that his son was brutally murdered and did not commit suicide as reported.
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde after Ram Singh, one of the key accused in the December 16 gang-rape case, committed suicide on Monday morning.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Ram Singh, main accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape of a 23-year-old, did not commit suicide; he was murdered in Delhi's Tihar Jail, his family members said Monday.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The brother of the 23-year-old physiotherapist, who was brutally gang-raped inside a moving bus here Dec 16, 2012, expressed shock on hearing of the suicide of the prime accused, Ram Singh, inside Tihar Jail Monday.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said it will raise in parliament the suicide in Tihar jail Monday of Ram Singh, main accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape of a 23-year-old.
Kota/New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): The National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Mamta Sharma on Monday demanded a thorough probe by competent authorities to ascertain what pushed Ram Singh, one of the key accused in the December 16 Delhi gang-rape case, to commit suicide in his cell.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The main accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape of a 23-year-old has committed suicide in Delhi's Tihar Jail Monday morning, police said.
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): Former Tihar Director General Kiran Bedi said on Monday that only an inquiry will tell under what special watch was Delhi gang rape accused Ram Singh was kept and how he evaded it to commit suicide.
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): Delhi gang rape main accused Ram Singh's lawyer on Monday made it clear that his client was neither depressed nor distressed.
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): The Union Home Ministry on Monday sought a detailed report from Tihar Jail administration hours after Singh committed suicide in his cell.
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): Delhi gang-rape main accused Ram Singh committed suicide on Monday around 5 a.m. by hanging himself inside jail number 3 of Tihar Jail.
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The main accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape case has committed suicide in Delhi's Tihar Jail Monday morning, police said.
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Staff members of Tihar Jail Saturday walked the ramp as they showcased dress and jewellery designed by female inmates of the jail.
Ghaziabad, March 7 (IANS) Ajay Katara, prime witness in the 2002 Nitish Katara abduction and murder here, was attacked here by nine people, police said Thursday.
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The women inmates of Tihar Jail here are set to walk the ramp as part of a fashion show planned to celebrate International Women's Day, an official said Thursday.
Hoshiarpur (Punjab), March 4 (IANS) A 26-year-old woman from New Delhi was Monday sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment by a court in this Punjab town for drug dealing.
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Sanjay, 25, is totally absorbed as he etches out intricate designs on a piece of wood, as are three other men in the room with him - all serving life term in Tihar Jail for murder. But it is the possible start of a new life for them with their training in wood carving that is fetching rich dividends.
Lucknow, Mar 2 (IANS) Can disclosure of certain details on parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, hanged at New Delhi's Tihar Jail "affect relations with a foreign state"? The prison department certainly thinks so.
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Thirteen officers were suspended from India's largest prison, Tihar Jail, in 2012 for dereliction of duty while 35 officers were punished for not properly attending to their work, a top prison official said.
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Over 450 Tihar inmates will be completing educational courses in multiple disciplines in coming years, a jail official said Friday.
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) To aid reformation of convicts and to show them that trust could be reposed in them, Tihar Central Jail, India's largest prison, has chosen 24 prisoners for the open-jail system this year.
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) An oil painting of Anna Hazare by an inmate of India's largest prison Tihar earned him Rs.20,000 in an exhibition, said jail officials.
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) To aid reformation of convicts and to show them that trust could be reposed in them, Tihar Central Jail, India's largest prison, has chosen 24 prisoners for the open-jail system this year.
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) India's largest prison, the Tihar Jail here has witnessed 18 deaths, including two suicides, during 2012, an official said.
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Let parliament decide whether the body of Afzal Guru, executed for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, should be taken to Jammu and Kashmir as demanded by his family, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Let parliament decide whether the body of Afzal Guru, executed for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, should be taken to Jammu and Kashmir as demanded by his family, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday came down heavily on Tihar jail authority for keeping Vikas and Vishal Yadav, convicted in murder of Nitish Katara, in the jail meant for undertrials instead of convicts.
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Citing "unseemly controversies", N.D. Pancholi and Nandita Haksar Wednesday quit as the family lawyers of Afzal Guru, the parliament attack convict who was hanged here Feb 9.
Islamabad, Feb. 13 (ANI): Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman, has urged the United States to help resolve the 65-year-old Kashmir dispute saying that recent developments on the Line of Control (LoC) have set the region back.
Refusing the offer of the Central government, the family of the hanged Afzal Guru said on Tuesday that they would not visit his grave inside Tihar Jail, but would instead continue their struggle to get his mortal remains back to Kashmir.............................
Srinagar, Feb 12 (IANS) Afzal Guru's family said Tuesday they would not visit his grave inside Tihar Jail, but would instead continue their struggle to get his mortal remains back to Kashmir.
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) The central government may allow the family members of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to pray at his grave in Delhi's Tihar Jail, Home Secretary R.K. Singh said Tuesday.
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) Afzal Guru's family has still not received the last letter which he had written, addressed to his wife Tabassum, a few hours before his execution in Delhi's Tihar Jail Saturday, his family said.
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) Afzal Guru wrote his last letter to his wife a few hours before his execution code named Operation Three Star, Tihar Jail officials said Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) A frequent hoax caller was arrested here for duping several people on the pretext of providing them Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards, election cards and badges of auto and taxi divers, police said Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The execution of Afzal Guru was conducted under a secret code name given by the Tihar Jail authorities, officials at the jail said.
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) Hours before he was to be executed, Afzal Guru penned his last letter to his wife, Tihar Jail officials said Monday. The letter, written in Urdu, was posted Saturday but is yet to reach his wife in Kashmir.
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) A day after the execution of Afzal Guru, his family members demanded that his spectacles, clothes and a radio be returned to them, but a Tihar Jail official Sunday said the government was yet to take a decision on the issue.
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The family members of executed terrorist Afzal Guru want his belongings - glasses, clothes and a radio - to be returned to them, but a Tihar Jail official Sunday said the government was yet to take a decision on the issue.
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Tihar Jail, the largest prison of India, witnessed a hanging Saturday after 24 years, when the 2001 parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was executed early morning, an official said.
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) As parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was executed here Saturday morning, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter saw a deluge of comments with many expressing delight while some condemning the capital punishment.
New Delhi, Feb. 9 (ANI): Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh on Saturday said the body of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru cannot be returned to his family members as the burial has already taken place inside the Tihar Jail after his execution.
