Jail Helper

An Italian court on Monday convicted more than 200 mobsters and their white-collar helpers, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia.

An Indian couple here has been jailed and fined up to 15,000 Singapore dollars after being found guilty of abusing their domestic helper from India, a media report said on Friday.

Pakistan's jailed former premier Nawaz Sharif will maintain his prison room on his own as the Punjab province government refused to provide him a prisoner who could serve as his orderly, according to a media report.

Lalu Yadav's two helpers found it easy to get into jail just before their boss walked in after being sentenced in a fodder scam case last week. Despite their best efforts, they couldn't make it stick. Laxman Mahto and Madan Yadav have been granted bail by a court in Jharkhand's Ranchi, to their chagrin. Their release came through after the police c...

AIADMK chief VK Sasikala has managed to get special treatment at the Bengaluru central prison including an exclusive kitchen for her meals, a report by a senior jail official D Roopa says, pointing accusing fingers at her boss who she said, was aware of violations of the jail rules but had done little.

Kerala multi-millionaire Mohammad Nisham, who has been given life term and an additional 24 years imprisonment for the murder of a security guard by driving his Hummer into him, has allegedly been given a "helper" inside Kannur jail.

A 20-year-old Indian-origin woman in Singapore was today jailed for a week for torturing her Filipina maid by slapping, hitting and punching her. Vidya Jayasankarr committed one count of voluntarily causing hurt to the family's domestic helper Miezel Cagas Limbaga and was ordered to pay SGD 4,800 compensation.

Kuwait's appeals court has sentenced a female physician to four years in jail for torturing her African household worker who became partially blind as a result, local media reported today.

An Italian court on Monday convicted more than 200 mobsters and their white-collar helpers, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia.

An Indian couple here has been jailed and fined up to 15,000 Singapore dollars after being found guilty of abusing their domestic helper from India, a media report said on Friday.

Pakistan's jailed former premier Nawaz Sharif will maintain his prison room on his own as the Punjab province government refused to provide him a prisoner who could serve as his orderly, according to a media report.

Lalu Yadav's two helpers found it easy to get into jail just before their boss walked in after being sentenced in a fodder scam case last week. Despite their best efforts, they couldn't make it stick. Laxman Mahto and Madan Yadav have been granted bail by a court in Jharkhand's Ranchi, to their chagrin. Their release came through after the police c...

AIADMK chief VK Sasikala has managed to get special treatment at the Bengaluru central prison including an exclusive kitchen for her meals, a report by a senior jail official D Roopa says, pointing accusing fingers at her boss who she said, was aware of violations of the jail rules but had done little.

Kerala multi-millionaire Mohammad Nisham, who has been given life term and an additional 24 years imprisonment for the murder of a security guard by driving his Hummer into him, has allegedly been given a "helper" inside Kannur jail.

A 20-year-old Indian-origin woman in Singapore was today jailed for a week for torturing her Filipina maid by slapping, hitting and punching her. Vidya Jayasankarr committed one count of voluntarily causing hurt to the family's domestic helper Miezel Cagas Limbaga and was ordered to pay SGD 4,800 compensation.

Kuwait's appeals court has sentenced a female physician to four years in jail for torturing her African household worker who became partially blind as a result, local media reported today.