Meerut Jail

The four convicts in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at 5:30 am today. After three of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case moved the Delhi high court Thursday evening challenging the trial court order declining to stay their execution scheduled for ea...

Uttar Pradesh prisons will now have their own in-house radio stations, operated by jail inmates, officials said. Director General (prison administration and reform services), Anand Kumar, recently inaugurated the 26th in-house radio station in Meerut district jail.

Pawan Jallad, the hangman from Meerut, who was called to execute the four convicts of the Nirbhaya case on Thursday reported at Tihar Jail.

Arrangements for hanging the four men convicted in the gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi in 2012 began last month, as the city's Tihar jail prepared for the execution ordered by a court today for January 22 at 7 am.

The hangman at Meerut jail in Uttar Pradesh has said he is ready to carry out the execution of the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case. Pawan Jallad, a third-generation hangman, said his grandfather had carried out the hanging of the two men involved in the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, besides criminals Ranga and ...

Nirbhaya rape and murder case: Pawan Jallad, the executioner from Meerut jail said, "I am prepared to carry out the execution if I am asked to by the administration (Tihar jail), I will go to Delhi and carry out my duty."

A dreaded criminal, Badan Singh, serving life sentence, escaped on Thursday after allegedly entertaining police personnel in a hotel where alcohol was served. Six policemen and three others were arrested said the police at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

Death-row convict Surinder Koli's mother today met her son for the first time in eight years since he was lodged in jail for the Nithari serial killings.

A hangman in Meerut has become much sought in the last few days as he awaits his maiden opportunity to execute Surinder Koli, the convict in the Nithari serial murders case.

Surinder Koli, who was convicted of killing young children in Nithari near Delhi nearly a decade ago, will be hanged next Friday at a jail in Uttar Pradesh.

Ram Kali, Uttar Pradesh's oldest prisoner at 107 years, died late on Sunday at the Bulandshahr jail, 403 km from the state capital Lucknow, police said.

A special anti-corruption court has sentenced a dismissed homeguard jawan to one-year imprisonment for taking a Rs 10 bribe 12 years ago. Special court Judge Neeraj Kumar Sangal yesterday ordered jail term for suspended homeguard Ongkar Singh and imposed a fine of Rs 3000 for taking a bribe of Rs 10 from a truck driver at the city's Railway Road C...

The confiscation of a cigarette lighter caused a violent clash between inmates of a Meerut prison and security guards this morning, police said. Gunshots were heard from inside the jail and thick smoke billowed out.

Jails in Uttar Pradesh will soon have CCTVs, computers and broadband networks with the state government approving a proposal in this regard, officials said today.The systems will be installed in 63 prisons - including jails in Agra, Varanasi, Fatehgarh, Bareily, Banda, Etah and Fatehpur -- across the state and the work is expected to be complete by...

The four convicts in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at 5:30 am today. After three of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case moved the Delhi high court Thursday evening challenging the trial court order declining to stay their execution scheduled for ea...

Uttar Pradesh prisons will now have their own in-house radio stations, operated by jail inmates, officials said. Director General (prison administration and reform services), Anand Kumar, recently inaugurated the 26th in-house radio station in Meerut district jail.

Pawan Jallad, the hangman from Meerut, who was called to execute the four convicts of the Nirbhaya case on Thursday reported at Tihar Jail.

Arrangements for hanging the four men convicted in the gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi in 2012 began last month, as the city's Tihar jail prepared for the execution ordered by a court today for January 22 at 7 am.

The hangman at Meerut jail in Uttar Pradesh has said he is ready to carry out the execution of the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case. Pawan Jallad, a third-generation hangman, said his grandfather had carried out the hanging of the two men involved in the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, besides criminals Ranga and ...

Nirbhaya rape and murder case: Pawan Jallad, the executioner from Meerut jail said, "I am prepared to carry out the execution if I am asked to by the administration (Tihar jail), I will go to Delhi and carry out my duty."

A dreaded criminal, Badan Singh, serving life sentence, escaped on Thursday after allegedly entertaining police personnel in a hotel where alcohol was served. Six policemen and three others were arrested said the police at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

Death-row convict Surinder Koli's mother today met her son for the first time in eight years since he was lodged in jail for the Nithari serial killings.

A hangman in Meerut has become much sought in the last few days as he awaits his maiden opportunity to execute Surinder Koli, the convict in the Nithari serial murders case.

Surinder Koli, who was convicted of killing young children in Nithari near Delhi nearly a decade ago, will be hanged next Friday at a jail in Uttar Pradesh.

Ram Kali, Uttar Pradesh's oldest prisoner at 107 years, died late on Sunday at the Bulandshahr jail, 403 km from the state capital Lucknow, police said.

A special anti-corruption court has sentenced a dismissed homeguard jawan to one-year imprisonment for taking a Rs 10 bribe 12 years ago. Special court Judge Neeraj Kumar Sangal yesterday ordered jail term for suspended homeguard Ongkar Singh and imposed a fine of Rs 3000 for taking a bribe of Rs 10 from a truck driver at the city's Railway Road C...

The confiscation of a cigarette lighter caused a violent clash between inmates of a Meerut prison and security guards this morning, police said. Gunshots were heard from inside the jail and thick smoke billowed out.

Jails in Uttar Pradesh will soon have CCTVs, computers and broadband networks with the state government approving a proposal in this regard, officials said today.The systems will be installed in 63 prisons - including jails in Agra, Varanasi, Fatehgarh, Bareily, Banda, Etah and Fatehpur -- across the state and the work is expected to be complete by...