Delhi Jail Inmate

A 29-year-old prisoner was stabbed to death by another inmate inside Delhi's Tihar Jail, officials said on Friday. The victim, who worked as a 'sewadar', was allegedly attacked inside Jail Number 3 after a dispute over food.

In a suspected gang war and fight for supremacy inside the prison, two groups of inmates clashed inside Tihar's jail number 3, an official said on Thursday, adding that four inmates sustained injuries.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned in the national capital to frame a standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure that inmates who have been granted bail are released from jail within a period of 48 hours.

The Delhi Prisons Department has procured 10 non-linear junction detectors from a US-based firm to detect mobile phones and metal objects hidden inside jails by inmates, officials said on Saturday.

Delhi Police on Wednesday got a recorded statement of three jail inmates in the Tillu Tajpuria murder case before Patiala House Court.

The Delhi Prisons Department has initiated the process of procuring electric shock batons, pepper sprays and other non-lethal weapons to be used by prison personnel to quell inmate brawls inside jails.

Days after he allegedly bypassed authorities and moved two inmates to the cell of former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, the Tihar jail administration has transferred Rajesh Chaudhary, the superintendent of jail number 7.

All six inmates of Tihar Jail arrested in connection with the killing of jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya were on Friday taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini as part of the investigation, police said.

The attackers of dreaded gangster Tillu Tajpuriya in Delhi's Tihar jail fashioned knives out of an exhaust fan, used bedsheets to climb down a floor and barged into his cell to beat him to death, police sources have told NDTV.

The killing of a second gangster in less than a month inside the Tihar jail here has once again put a serious question mark on the security at one of the largest prisons in Asia.

An associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was killed in an attack by rival gang members inside Tihar Jail on Friday evening, according to officials.

A public interest litigation challenging corporal punishment of inmates for indiscipline came up for hearing before the Delhi High Court on Tuesday.

As many as 23 surgical blades, drugs, smartphones and a SIM card were recovered from an inmate in Tihar jail, prison officials said on Friday.

AAP national spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday alleged that party leader Manish Sisodia is being kept with other inmates in jail and has been refused the 'Vipassana' cell.

Liquor policy scam case accused and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia is lodged in a Tihar prison cell for senior citizens and like any other inmate, has been given basic items and is being served food as per the prison manual.

A 29-year-old prisoner was stabbed to death by another inmate inside Delhi's Tihar Jail, officials said on Friday. The victim, who worked as a 'sewadar', was allegedly attacked inside Jail Number 3 after a dispute over food.

In a suspected gang war and fight for supremacy inside the prison, two groups of inmates clashed inside Tihar's jail number 3, an official said on Thursday, adding that four inmates sustained injuries.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned in the national capital to frame a standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure that inmates who have been granted bail are released from jail within a period of 48 hours.

The Delhi Prisons Department has procured 10 non-linear junction detectors from a US-based firm to detect mobile phones and metal objects hidden inside jails by inmates, officials said on Saturday.

Delhi Police on Wednesday got a recorded statement of three jail inmates in the Tillu Tajpuria murder case before Patiala House Court.

The Delhi Prisons Department has initiated the process of procuring electric shock batons, pepper sprays and other non-lethal weapons to be used by prison personnel to quell inmate brawls inside jails.

Days after he allegedly bypassed authorities and moved two inmates to the cell of former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, the Tihar jail administration has transferred Rajesh Chaudhary, the superintendent of jail number 7.

All six inmates of Tihar Jail arrested in connection with the killing of jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya were on Friday taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini as part of the investigation, police said.

The attackers of dreaded gangster Tillu Tajpuriya in Delhi's Tihar jail fashioned knives out of an exhaust fan, used bedsheets to climb down a floor and barged into his cell to beat him to death, police sources have told NDTV.

The killing of a second gangster in less than a month inside the Tihar jail here has once again put a serious question mark on the security at one of the largest prisons in Asia.

An associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was killed in an attack by rival gang members inside Tihar Jail on Friday evening, according to officials.

A public interest litigation challenging corporal punishment of inmates for indiscipline came up for hearing before the Delhi High Court on Tuesday.

As many as 23 surgical blades, drugs, smartphones and a SIM card were recovered from an inmate in Tihar jail, prison officials said on Friday.

AAP national spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday alleged that party leader Manish Sisodia is being kept with other inmates in jail and has been refused the 'Vipassana' cell.

Liquor policy scam case accused and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia is lodged in a Tihar prison cell for senior citizens and like any other inmate, has been given basic items and is being served food as per the prison manual.