Mathura Jail

A Mathura court on Tuesday sentenced a youth to 20 years' prison for raping a five-year-old girl in a rural area here about four years ago, a court official said.

A special court in UP's Mathura sentenced a man to life imprisonment till last breath for kidnapping and raping his stepdaughter, saying he deserved no leniency as he was the custodian of the girl, a minor when the incident happened 8 years ago.

In a letter to a group of UN human rights experts, paediatrician Kafeel Khan has alleged that he was "tortured" in the Mathura jail, where he was lodged after being charged under the National Security Act (NSA) for allegedly delivering provocative speeches in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) during the anti-CAA stir in December 2019.

Kafeel Khan, the Uttar Pradesh doctor jailed under the tough National Security Act (NSA) for an alleged speech against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, was freed from a jail in Mathura at midnight on Wednesday.

Kafeel Khan, the Uttar Pradesh doctor jailed under the tough National Security Act (NSA) for a speech against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, must be freed immediately, a court said today, calling his detention illegal. The doctor's speech did not show any effort to promote hate or violence, the Allahabad High Court said.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday claimed that Dr Kafeel Khan, who is charged under the National Security Act or NSA and is lodged at the Mathura jail, is "absolutely fine and fully secure" in the prison. The statement came two days after Dr Kafeel Khan's wife claimed that her husband faces a threat to life in the Mathura jail.

UP doctor Kafeel Khan, who was accused of making an inflammatory speech at Alligarh Muslim University, was remanded to 14 days' judicial custody and later transferred to Mathura jail, officials said on Saturday.

An occult practitioner or tantrik has been awarded 25-year jail term by a fast track court in Mathura for raping a woman on the pretext of 'healing her stomach ache'. The incident took place at an ashram in Vrindavan.

As the world prepared to ring in the New Year last night, a group of prisoners were busy rehearsing their plan to escape the high-security jail in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura. A few hours later, three of them got away, but the fourth prisoner was left behind after he fell down failing to scale the high walls of the prison, police said. The dense fog re...

A convict serving a jail term in a murder case allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Mathura jail following which a magisterial probe has been ordered.

A cult at the centre of deadly clashes in Mathura that was running a parallel judicial system and had its own constitution, jails and several "battalions" of soldiers, also gave arms training to children, a senior police officer said.

A judicial system, a constitution, penal code, jails and several "battalions" of armed soldiers: Documents recovered from Mathura's Jawahar Park shows what was virtually a republic ran in the 260-acre area, where 24 people died during a pitched battle between the 3000-strong encroachers and the police on Thursday.

Two persons were sentenced to life imprisonment while a third is facing trial in a juvenile court in connection with the murder case committed ten years ago.

A driver with popular taxi service Uber arrested for allegedly raping a woman passenger in Delhi on Friday is allegedly a repeat offender; he was involved in a rape case in 2011 but his criminal record apparently went unchecked when he was hired.

Undertrial prisoners on Tuesday staged a hunger strike in Mathura jail but called it off soon after authorities promised them proper treatment.

A Mathura court on Tuesday sentenced a youth to 20 years' prison for raping a five-year-old girl in a rural area here about four years ago, a court official said.

A special court in UP's Mathura sentenced a man to life imprisonment till last breath for kidnapping and raping his stepdaughter, saying he deserved no leniency as he was the custodian of the girl, a minor when the incident happened 8 years ago.

In a letter to a group of UN human rights experts, paediatrician Kafeel Khan has alleged that he was "tortured" in the Mathura jail, where he was lodged after being charged under the National Security Act (NSA) for allegedly delivering provocative speeches in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) during the anti-CAA stir in December 2019.

Kafeel Khan, the Uttar Pradesh doctor jailed under the tough National Security Act (NSA) for an alleged speech against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, was freed from a jail in Mathura at midnight on Wednesday.

Kafeel Khan, the Uttar Pradesh doctor jailed under the tough National Security Act (NSA) for a speech against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, must be freed immediately, a court said today, calling his detention illegal. The doctor's speech did not show any effort to promote hate or violence, the Allahabad High Court said.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday claimed that Dr Kafeel Khan, who is charged under the National Security Act or NSA and is lodged at the Mathura jail, is "absolutely fine and fully secure" in the prison. The statement came two days after Dr Kafeel Khan's wife claimed that her husband faces a threat to life in the Mathura jail.

UP doctor Kafeel Khan, who was accused of making an inflammatory speech at Alligarh Muslim University, was remanded to 14 days' judicial custody and later transferred to Mathura jail, officials said on Saturday.

An occult practitioner or tantrik has been awarded 25-year jail term by a fast track court in Mathura for raping a woman on the pretext of 'healing her stomach ache'. The incident took place at an ashram in Vrindavan.

As the world prepared to ring in the New Year last night, a group of prisoners were busy rehearsing their plan to escape the high-security jail in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura. A few hours later, three of them got away, but the fourth prisoner was left behind after he fell down failing to scale the high walls of the prison, police said. The dense fog re...

A convict serving a jail term in a murder case allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Mathura jail following which a magisterial probe has been ordered.

A cult at the centre of deadly clashes in Mathura that was running a parallel judicial system and had its own constitution, jails and several "battalions" of soldiers, also gave arms training to children, a senior police officer said.

A judicial system, a constitution, penal code, jails and several "battalions" of armed soldiers: Documents recovered from Mathura's Jawahar Park shows what was virtually a republic ran in the 260-acre area, where 24 people died during a pitched battle between the 3000-strong encroachers and the police on Thursday.

Two persons were sentenced to life imprisonment while a third is facing trial in a juvenile court in connection with the murder case committed ten years ago.

A driver with popular taxi service Uber arrested for allegedly raping a woman passenger in Delhi on Friday is allegedly a repeat offender; he was involved in a rape case in 2011 but his criminal record apparently went unchecked when he was hired.

Undertrial prisoners on Tuesday staged a hunger strike in Mathura jail but called it off soon after authorities promised them proper treatment.