Bhopal Central Jail

The prisons in Madhya Pradesh are facing a severe crisis in health services, with a staggering 72.4 per cent positions of doctors and 47.4 per cent positions of other medical staff remaining vacant.

A 24-year-old undertrial pregnant woman prisoner, who was brought from Bhopal Central Jail to Hamidia Hospital for checkup, escaped on Saturday, an official said.

A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh has sentenced five persons to seven years rigorous imprisonment in connection with the Vyapam scam.

Forty-two prisoners of the Bhopal Central Jail, several of them serving life sentences for murders, are undergoing a paramedical course with authorities claiming that it might be a first-of-its-kind initiative for any jail in the country.

A judicial commission appointed to probe the encounter of eight alleged SIMI activists after their escape from the highly-fortified Bhopal Central Jail on October 31, 2016, has termed the police action justified. The commission, headed by retired judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court SK Pandey, has also given a clean chit to the police.

A judicial commission set up to investigate the alleged gunning down of eight suspected SIMI activists after their escape from the highly-fortified Bhopal Central Jail on October 31 last has submitted its report to the Madhya Pradesh government.

At the Bhopal Central Jail, where eight members of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI managed a daring prison break last week before being gunned down hours later, around 80 guards are "missing".

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday announced that a judicial enquiry will be conducted into an "encounter" of eight SIMI activists.

Our founding fathers fought a long and painful struggle to give us the rights and liberties enshrined in our constitution and we will fight till death to protect the right to question anyone who rides roughshod over them. So yes, Mr. Rijiju, doubting you is in my culture. And thank God for that.

Fake encounters such as those in Gujarat and now in Madhya Pradesh cannot take place without the sanction of the political leadership. The NIA investigation into the Bhopal killings, including that of Ramashankar Yadav, will not bring out the truth.

The lawyer of the eight SIMI terror-accused killed in an encounter by the Madhya Pradesh police has demanded a CBI investigation alleging that their jailbreak hours before they were killed was a set-up.

Pummeled with serious questions about the killing of eight terror suspects of the Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI in Bhopal, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today accused opposition parties of "dirty politics" over the killing of men he described as "dreaded terrorists".

While a video showed prisoners who escaped from a Bhopal jail being shot at close range, raising serious questions about the police's action, the Minister of Jails for Madhya Pradesh told NDTV that "You should praise us for killing the accused even though they escaped" while admitting to "lapses".

"Zinda Hai, Maaro" - he is alive, shoot him - a policeman is heard saying in one of the mobile phone videos that have emerged after the killing of eight terror suspects from the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI on Monday, hours after their dramatic prison-break.

Eight members of the banned group Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI were killed on Monday hours after they escaped from a high security prison in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal after slitting the throat of a guard using a sharp weapon made from steel plates.

The prisons in Madhya Pradesh are facing a severe crisis in health services, with a staggering 72.4 per cent positions of doctors and 47.4 per cent positions of other medical staff remaining vacant.

A 24-year-old undertrial pregnant woman prisoner, who was brought from Bhopal Central Jail to Hamidia Hospital for checkup, escaped on Saturday, an official said.

A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh has sentenced five persons to seven years rigorous imprisonment in connection with the Vyapam scam.

Forty-two prisoners of the Bhopal Central Jail, several of them serving life sentences for murders, are undergoing a paramedical course with authorities claiming that it might be a first-of-its-kind initiative for any jail in the country.

A judicial commission appointed to probe the encounter of eight alleged SIMI activists after their escape from the highly-fortified Bhopal Central Jail on October 31, 2016, has termed the police action justified. The commission, headed by retired judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court SK Pandey, has also given a clean chit to the police.

A judicial commission set up to investigate the alleged gunning down of eight suspected SIMI activists after their escape from the highly-fortified Bhopal Central Jail on October 31 last has submitted its report to the Madhya Pradesh government.

At the Bhopal Central Jail, where eight members of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI managed a daring prison break last week before being gunned down hours later, around 80 guards are "missing".

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday announced that a judicial enquiry will be conducted into an "encounter" of eight SIMI activists.

Our founding fathers fought a long and painful struggle to give us the rights and liberties enshrined in our constitution and we will fight till death to protect the right to question anyone who rides roughshod over them. So yes, Mr. Rijiju, doubting you is in my culture. And thank God for that.

Fake encounters such as those in Gujarat and now in Madhya Pradesh cannot take place without the sanction of the political leadership. The NIA investigation into the Bhopal killings, including that of Ramashankar Yadav, will not bring out the truth.

The lawyer of the eight SIMI terror-accused killed in an encounter by the Madhya Pradesh police has demanded a CBI investigation alleging that their jailbreak hours before they were killed was a set-up.

Pummeled with serious questions about the killing of eight terror suspects of the Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI in Bhopal, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today accused opposition parties of "dirty politics" over the killing of men he described as "dreaded terrorists".

While a video showed prisoners who escaped from a Bhopal jail being shot at close range, raising serious questions about the police's action, the Minister of Jails for Madhya Pradesh told NDTV that "You should praise us for killing the accused even though they escaped" while admitting to "lapses".

"Zinda Hai, Maaro" - he is alive, shoot him - a policeman is heard saying in one of the mobile phone videos that have emerged after the killing of eight terror suspects from the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI on Monday, hours after their dramatic prison-break.

Eight members of the banned group Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI were killed on Monday hours after they escaped from a high security prison in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal after slitting the throat of a guard using a sharp weapon made from steel plates.