Gurdaspur Jail

Former Superintendent of Police (SP) of Punjab Police, Salwinder Singh, was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in a case of rape registered against him.

A clerk, who was behind bars in an alleged case of fraud, was given the charge of two high schools in Gurdaspur district by Punjab's education department, an official said.

The seven accused in the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua will be shifted from a prison in Jammu and Kashmir to Punjab's Gurdaspur district jail, the Supreme Court ordered today. And when the families of the accused come to meet them, their travel expenses will be borne by the Jammu and Kashmir government, the top court said.

In the fourth recovery of this month, officials at Punjab's Gurdaspur jail have found more mobile phones buried in the ground. The phones were hidden in surgical gloves and planted two feet under a sanitary pipe. The jail authorities have so far seized 21 mobile phones and massive search operations are being launched every day to tackle the menace ...

Jail authorities rewarded the inmates of Gurdaspur central jail who "exhibited good behavior" and saved some prison employees when some prisoners clashed last week.

Around half-a-dozen under trials today went on rampage in Gurdaspur jail after attacking two members of jail staff, forcing the security guards to open fire in the air, to rein in them.

Narcotics, used syringes and mobile phones were seized by police during raids carried out at central jails in Gurdaspur and Amritsar today.

The body of Indian prisoner Kirpal Singh, who died under mysterious circumstances in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, was cremated at his native place Mustafabad in Saida village near Gurdaspur today.

With none of their relatives ready to look after them, at least five infants are forced to live in a dingy cell at Central Jail, Gurdaspur along with their convicted or undertrial mothers or guardians.     Out of a total of 69 women inmates at the jail five are lodged with children aged one to two years as there was no one among...

Former Superintendent of Police (SP) of Punjab Police, Salwinder Singh, was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in a case of rape registered against him.

A clerk, who was behind bars in an alleged case of fraud, was given the charge of two high schools in Gurdaspur district by Punjab's education department, an official said.

The seven accused in the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua will be shifted from a prison in Jammu and Kashmir to Punjab's Gurdaspur district jail, the Supreme Court ordered today. And when the families of the accused come to meet them, their travel expenses will be borne by the Jammu and Kashmir government, the top court said.

In the fourth recovery of this month, officials at Punjab's Gurdaspur jail have found more mobile phones buried in the ground. The phones were hidden in surgical gloves and planted two feet under a sanitary pipe. The jail authorities have so far seized 21 mobile phones and massive search operations are being launched every day to tackle the menace ...

Jail authorities rewarded the inmates of Gurdaspur central jail who "exhibited good behavior" and saved some prison employees when some prisoners clashed last week.

Around half-a-dozen under trials today went on rampage in Gurdaspur jail after attacking two members of jail staff, forcing the security guards to open fire in the air, to rein in them.

Narcotics, used syringes and mobile phones were seized by police during raids carried out at central jails in Gurdaspur and Amritsar today.

The body of Indian prisoner Kirpal Singh, who died under mysterious circumstances in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, was cremated at his native place Mustafabad in Saida village near Gurdaspur today.

With none of their relatives ready to look after them, at least five infants are forced to live in a dingy cell at Central Jail, Gurdaspur along with their convicted or undertrial mothers or guardians.     Out of a total of 69 women inmates at the jail five are lodged with children aged one to two years as there was no one among...